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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes made from a prepared chicken mixture, coated in egg and cracker crumbs, fried, and served with green peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and peas are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,528 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the chicken mixture as directed and let it cool.

  2. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and chill

  1. Roll each croquette in beaten egg, then in cracker crumbs.

  2. Refrigerate for several hours to firm up.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in deep, hot cottolene until golden brown.

  2. Serve with green peas.

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 + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,528 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Egg + peastop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,065 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Beaten egg binds the cracker crumb coating so it adheres to the croquette.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.
Chicken mixture
Forms the filling that is shaped into the croquettes.

The step that matters

Chilling before frying. Refrigerating the shaped croquettes for several hours firms the mixture so it holds its shape. Without chilling, the soft filling can break open or fall apart in the hot oil.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, egg):

  1. Peanutfits about as well
  2. Sesamefits about as well
  3. Peasthe original
  4. Pecansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, 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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