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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes are fried rolls of seasoned chicken, mashed potatoes, and cream, coated with cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make and fry the rolls

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped chicken, egg, mashed potatoes, and season well.

  2. Form the mixture into rolls about 3 inches long.

  3. Heat the hot fat in a frying pan.

  4. Fry the rolls until golden brown.

Make the cream sauce

  1. In a saucepan, combine the minced fowl and cream, seasoning with pepper, salt, and parsley.

  2. Heat until boiling, then thicken with a paste made from butter and flour.

  3. Cook for a few minutes, then stir in the beaten yolks of 2 eggs and remove from heat.

Coat and fry

  1. Once cool, roll into shape, dip in egg, then coat with cracker crumbs, and fry.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  5. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Chopped chicken
Forms the bulk of the filling and gives the croquettes their main body.
Egg
Binds the mixture so it holds together when shaped and fried.
Mashed potatoes
Adds softness and moisture to the filling, helping it bind.
Flour
Thickens the butter paste so the sauce becomes smooth and creamy.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture to the sauce.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.

The step that matters

Let the rolls cool before shaping and coating. Cooling firms the mixture so it holds its shape. If it is still warm and soft, the rolls can lose their form or fall apart when dipped in egg and rolled in crumbs.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Garlicfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, egg, potato, cream, pepper, butter, flour. 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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