Skip to main content
Main

Fish Croquettes

A fried patty made from boiled fish, mashed potato, eggs, and seasonings, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Fish Croquettes

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 ↓

Fish Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Shape and coat

  1. Mix the boiled fish, mashed potato, pepper, and salt together.

  2. Form the mixture into croquettes.

  3. Dip each croquette in the beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

Fry and garnish

  1. Fry the croquettes in hot oil until brown.

  2. Garnish with slices of hard-boiled eggs and parsley.

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.

Photo for illustrative purposes only · Contact us to use it

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

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

  4. Fish + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled fish
Forms the main body of the croquettes and gives them their savory flavor.
Mashed potato
Adds moisture and starch that help hold the mixture together and keep it soft.
Egg
Binds the coating so the bread crumbs stick and the surface sets as it cooks.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer layer that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Frying in hot oil until brown. Oil that is hot enough sets the egg and crumb coating quickly, producing a crisp, browned crust. Oil that is too cool lets the croquettes soak up grease and turn soggy and heavy.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits about as well
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, egg, pepper, parsley, 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.

You might also like

Brown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesPotato CroquettesPotato Croquettes255 recipesFried FishFried Fish120 recipesWhite BreadWhite Bread80 recipes