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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of chicken, rice, cheese, and spices formed into croquettes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the rice for no more than 20 minutes and drain.

  2. In a bowl, mix the chopped chicken, boiled rice, grated cheese, parsley, cloves, mace, thyme, cayenne, and black pepper.

  3. Add the beaten egg yolks and sifted crackers to the mixture and combine thoroughly.

Shape and coat

  1. Beat the egg whites separately until frothy.

  2. Form the mixture into croquettes using a pointed shape.

  3. Dip each croquette first in the egg whites, then in the sifted crackers.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in hot lard until golden brown.

  2. Heat before serving.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Forms the bulk of the croquette and gives it its main savoury flavour.
Rice
Adds body to the mixture so the croquettes hold together with a soft interior.
Old cheese
Adds savoury richness and flavour to the filling.
Egg yolks
Bind the filling so it holds its shape during shaping and frying.
Egg whites
Form a thin coating that helps the cracker crumbs adhere to the croquette.
Sifted crackers
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Fry in hot lard until golden brown. If the lard is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb fat and turn greasy, and the coating may fall off before it sets. Hot fat quickly sets the egg and cracker crust so the inside stays moist while the outside browns.

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, rice, cheese, parsley, clove, mace, thyme):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, rice, cheese, parsley, clove, mace, thyme. 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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