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Rice Croquettes

Rice croquettes are fried balls of rice mixed with milk, butter, cheese, eggs, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Rice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a saucepan, heat milk and butter until melted.

  2. Mix in cooked rice, cheese, salt, and pepper.

  3. Allow the mixture to cool, then add eggs and mix well.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into small balls or patties.

  2. Roll each in breadcrumbs.

  3. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry croquettes until golden brown.

  4. Drain on paper towels before serving.

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

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

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

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

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  5. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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 a soft, tender interior.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together so the croquettes hold their shape when fried.
Cheese
Adds richness and flavor, and helps bind the mixture as it melts.
Milk
Adds moisture and creaminess to the rice mixture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and flavor.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust during frying.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before adding the eggs. Eggs added to a hot mixture can scramble and cook unevenly, which weakens binding. Cooling first keeps the eggs smooth and lets them bind the rice evenly so the croquettes hold their shape in the oil.

“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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