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Chicken Croquettes

Fried croquettes made from chopped chicken, rice, cheese, herbs, and spices, coated in egg and crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a large bowl, mix the chopped chicken, boiled rice, grated cheese, parsley, and spices.

  2. Add the beaten egg yolks and sifted crackers to the mixture and combine thoroughly.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes using a pointed glass.

  2. Dip each croquette in the beaten eggs, then coat with sifted crackers.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in hot lard until golden brown.

  2. Serve hot.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Parsley + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Forms the bulk of the croquette and gives its main savoury flavour.
Rice
Adds body and a soft interior that holds the croquette together.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and enrich it, helping the croquettes hold their shape.
Grated cheese
Adds savoury flavour and richness to the filling.
Eggs
Form a coating that helps the sifted crackers adhere and brown when fried.
Sifted crackers
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Coat and fry in hot lard. The egg and cracker coating must be fully set before frying. Hot fat seals the crust quickly and browns it; if the lard is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb grease and can fall apart.

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, rice, cheese, parsley, clove, mace, thyme):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, rice, cheese, parsley, clove, mace, thyme. 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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