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Chicken Croquettes

Fried croquettes made from chopped chicken, bread crumbs, eggs, parsley, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper 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 ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine the chopped chicken, crumbled bread, 2 eggs, chopped parsley, salt, and pepper in a bowl, then mix well until fully combined.

  2. Shape the mixture into pear shapes using your hands.

Coat and fry

  1. Coat each croquette with the crushed crackers and the beaten egg.

  2. Heat lard in a deep pan and fry the croquettes until golden brown.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled chicken breasts
Provides the main filling and body of the croquettes.
Soft bread
Adds moisture and helps bind the filling so it holds its shape.
Eggs
Bind the filling together so it holds its shape when shaped and fried.
Crushed crackers
Form a crisp, browned crust on the outside during frying.

The step that matters

Coating and frying the croquettes. The coating must be fully covered and the lard hot enough to brown the outside quickly. If the oil is too cool, the croquettes absorb grease and the filling can loosen or fall apart before the crust sets.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Thymefits less well
  4. Garlicfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, bread, egg, pepper. 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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