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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes are egg‑shaped rolls of minced chicken coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Form the croquettes

  1. Combine minced chicken, salt, pepper, and enough gravy to form egg-shaped rolls.

  2. Sprinkle the rolls with bread crumbs.

Brown and serve

  1. Heat hot butter in a skillet and brown the croquettes until golden.

  2. Remove croquettes to a hot dish.

  3. Add soaked bread crumbs and heated milk to the same pan, boiling until thick.

  4. Season to taste and serve with a sprig of celery on each croquette.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Minced chicken
Provides the main protein and bulk that the croquette is built around.
Gravy thickened with flour
Binds the minced chicken into shapes that hold together when formed.
Bread crumbs
Coat the rolls so they brown in the pan and form a crisp outer layer.
Soaked bread crumbs
Thicken the milk mixture in the pan, giving a creamier sauce texture.
Heated milk
Adds moisture and body to the sauce made in the pan with the soaked crumbs.

The step that matters

Boiling the milk and soaked crumbs until thick. The starch in the bread crumbs swells and thickens the milk as it boils. If it is removed too early the sauce stays thin, and if it boils too long it can become pasty.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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