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Rice Croquettes

Rice croquettes are fried rolls of seasoned rice mixed with egg, butter, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Rice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. Warm the rice in a double boiler with enough milk to soften it.

  2. Add the butter, salt, white pepper, cayenne, parsley, and beaten egg; cook until the egg thickens.

  3. Spread the mixture on a shallow plate to cool, then shape into rolls.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll in seasoned fine bread crumbs, dip in egg, and roll in crumbs again.

  2. Cook in deep fat until brown.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Rice + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked rice
Forms the bulk of the croquettes and gives them their body once shaped.
Egg
Thickens when cooked, binding the rice mixture and helping the coating adhere.
Milk
Softens the rice and adds moisture to the mixture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, contributing flavor and a tender texture.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Cook the egg until it thickens. Egg proteins set when heated, so the mixture must be cooked until the egg thickens to bind the rice. If it is undercooked, the shaped rolls may fall apart or stay wet inside.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, egg, butter, parsley, bread):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, egg, butter, parsley, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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