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Rice Croquettes

Rice croquettes are fried rolls made from rice, milk, butter, sugar, eggs, lemon, and cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,063 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Rice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. Boil rice in milk and water until tender.

  2. Add butter, sugar, eggs, lemon juice, and lemon peel; mix well.

  3. Shape mixture into rolls about 1 finger long.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip rolls in beaten egg yolks, then coat with cracker crumbs.

  2. Fry in hot coconut oil 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. Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  4. Milk + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 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

Rice
Cooked until tender, it gives the croquette mixture its body and bulk.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set on heating, holding the rolls together.
Egg yolks
Form the coating that helps crumbs stick and encourages even browning.
Butter
Adds richness and a soft texture to the rice mixture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the outside brown during frying.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the mixture.

The step that matters

Fry in hot coconut oil until golden brown. If the oil is not hot enough, the crumb coating absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of crisp. Too hot, and the outside browns before the centre is heated through.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, butter, sugar, egg, coconut):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, butter, sugar, egg, coconut. 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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