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Chicken Croquettes

A chicken and mushroom mixture cooked with butter, flour, broth, sherry, and egg yolks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a saucepan, melt the butter and sauté the grated onion until it begins to brown.

  2. Stir in the flour and gradually add the chicken broth or water.

  3. Add the chopped chicken, mushrooms, salt, pepper, and sherry or madeira.

  4. Cook the mixture until it begins to boil, then remove from heat.

  5. Stir in the egg yolks until well combined.

Cool

  1. Pour the mixture onto an oiled dish and let it cool.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + sherrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main body and savory flavor of the filling.
Flour
Thickens the broth into a stiff base that holds the filling together.
Egg yolks
Bind the filling and help it set when heated, adding richness.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and moisture to the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps cook the onion.

The step that matters

Cook until it begins to boil, then stop. Heating the egg yolks too far can scramble them and make the filling grainy, while too little cooking leaves the flour base thin and unable to set when cooled.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, butter, flour, pepper, sherry, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, butter, flour, pepper, sherry, egg. 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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