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Chicken Croquettes

A fried chicken croquette made with velouté sauce, egg yolks, minced chicken, breadcrumbs, and egg coating.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,449 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Reduce the velouté sauce in a saucepan.

  2. Mix the reduced sauce with the egg yolks and minced chicken until well combined.

  3. Form the mixture into balls about the size of a walnut.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll the balls in breadcrumbs to coat.

  2. Shape the coated balls into an elongated form.

  3. Dip the shaped croquettes in beaten egg.

  4. Coat them in breadcrumbs again.

  5. Fry the croquettes in hot oil until they are light 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. Meat + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

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

  2. Sauce + meattop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,167 recipes
  3. Egg + meattop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

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

  4. Sauce + chickentop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + chickentop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Velouté sauce
Binds the minced chicken into a mixture that holds its shape when formed.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help bind the filling so the croquettes hold together.
White meat of chicken
Provides the main filling, giving savory flavor and a tender texture.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.
Beaten egg
Acts as a glue so the second breadcrumb coating sticks evenly.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes in hot oil until light brown. Oil that is not hot enough lets the breadcrumbs soak up fat and turn greasy before they brown, while the filling may stay cold; hot oil sets the crust quickly and browns it evenly.

“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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