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Rissoles a LA Victoria

A fried rissole made with minced chicken, sweetbread, truffles, mushrooms, Supreme Sauce, eggs, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Rissoles a LA Victoria

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Mix the minced chicken, sweetbread, truffles, mushrooms, and Supreme Sauce in a bowl.

  2. Stir in the yolks of 3 eggs when the mixture is hot and let it thicken.

  3. Pour the mixture onto a dish and let it cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Once cooled, shape the mixture into risoles.

  2. Coat the risoles in egg and breadcrumbs.

  3. Fry them in boiling lard or fat until they are a nice brown.

Serve

  1. Serve on a napkin with fried parsley, or shape into cutlets and serve with brown sauce and peas or macedoine.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Truffle + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,604 recipes

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

  5. Sauce + mushroomtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Yolks thicken the hot mixture so it sets firm enough to shape and coat.
Supreme sauce
Adds a creamy, moist base that binds the minced meats together.
Sweetbread
Its soft, tender texture gives the filling a rich, delicate body.
Mushrooms
Contribute moisture and earthy flavour to the filling.
Truffles
Add a concentrated, aromatic earthy flavour to the filling.

The step that matters

Let the filling cool fully before shaping. A hot, loose filling is soft and sticky, so the risoles can tear or slump. Cooling lets the egg yolks and sauce set the mixture so it holds its shape through coating and frying.

“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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