Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Croquettes De Riz
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Mix the cooked rice with eggs and milk.
Shape the mixture into small rolls and coat them with sugar.
Coat and fry
Roll the sugar-coated rolls in bread crumbs, fold them, and roll them again in bread crumbs.
Fry the croquettes in hot lard until golden brown.
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.
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Rice + milktop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together7,374 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together11,466 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,259 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
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Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together22,662 recipes
Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
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Egg + milktop 18% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together88,785 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Cooked rice
- Forms the bulk of the croquette, giving body to the shaped rolls.
- Eggs
- Bind the rice mixture so the rolls hold their shape.
- Milk
- Adds moisture, keeping the interior soft while the outside fries.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and helps the exterior brown during frying.
- Bread crumbs
- Form a crisp outer coating that protects the rolls and browns in the hot fat.
The step that matters
Fry the croquettes in hot lard until golden brown. The fat must be hot enough to crisp the bread crumb coating quickly. If it is too cool, the croquettes soak up grease and turn heavy and soggy inside before the crust sets.
“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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