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Chicken Croquettes

A fried chicken croquette made with chicken, butter, flour, and broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Remove bones, fat, and skin from the chicken and chop the meat.

  2. Season the chopped chicken with salt and pepper.

Make the cream base

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Add the flour and stir constantly until well mixed.

  3. Gradually add enough chicken broth to achieve a thick cream consistency.

  4. Stir in the chopped chicken and heat through.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes and fry until golden.

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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Meat + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken meat
Provides the main filling and savory flavor of the croquettes.
Flour
Thickens the butter and broth into a cream that holds the croquettes together.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the cream base and helps flour mix smoothly.
Chicken broth
Supplies the liquid that, with flour, forms a thick cream consistency.

The step that matters

Gradually add the broth. Adding liquid slowly while stirring lets the starch in the flour hydrate evenly, preventing lumps and giving a smooth, thick cream that will hold its shape when shaped and fried.

“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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