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Rice Croquettes

Rice croquettes are fried rice balls coated in breadcrumbs, served with parsley garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,762 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Rice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil rice in plenty of water until soft.

  2. Spoon out small amounts of rice and shape into pears.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each pear-shaped rice piece into beaten eggs, then coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry in boiling oil until golden brown.

  3. Drain on a napkin, garnish with parsley, and serve.

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

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

  2. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  5. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 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

Rice
Forms the body of the croquette; cooked soft, it holds the shape once shaped.
Eggs
Bind the coating to the rice and help the bread crumbs adhere.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer layer that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Fry in boiling oil until golden brown. The oil must be hot enough to set and brown the crumb coating quickly; if it is too cool, the croquettes absorb oil and turn greasy before the coating crisps.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits about as well
  3. Turmericfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, egg, 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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