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Croquettes De Riz

A fried roll of cooked rice mixed with eggs and milk, coated in sugar and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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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

  1. Mix the cooked rice with eggs and milk.

  2. Shape the mixture into small rolls and coat them with sugar.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll the sugar-coated rolls in bread crumbs, fold them, and roll them again in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in hot lard 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.

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

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

  2. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked 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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