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Chicken Croquettes

A fried chicken croquette with ham, mushrooms, truffle, and cream sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 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 ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Chop the cold chicken and ham or tongue finely.

  2. Melt the butter in a pan, add the flour, and stir until smooth.

  3. Gradually add the stock, stirring until thickened.

  4. Stir in the cream, lemon juice, mushrooms, truffle, salt, and pepper.

  5. Remove from heat and let cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into croquettes, dip in beaten egg, and coat with breadcrumbs.

  2. Heat the frying fat 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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  5. Butter + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold chicken
Provides the main body and meaty bulk of the filling.
Butter and flour
Form a roux that thickens the stock into a binding sauce.
Stock
Supplies the liquid that turns the roux into a thick, savoury base.
Cream
Adds richness and a softer, smoother texture to the filling.
Egg
Binds the breadcrumb coating so it adheres and fries crisp.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and moisture to the filling.

The step that matters

Cooling the mixture before shaping. A thickened filling must cool and firm up before it is shaped. If it is still warm and soft, the croquettes lose their form and can split or burst in the hot fat.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, ham, butter, flour, cream, mushroom, truffle):

  1. Coconutfits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Avocadofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, ham, butter, flour, cream, mushroom, truffle. 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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