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Chicken Croquettes

A fried croquette made from a mixture of chicken, ham, mushrooms, truffle, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 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

Prepare

  1. Chop the chicken and ham or tongue finely.

  2. Cut the mushrooms and truffle into small pieces.

Make the sauce

  1. Melt the butter in a pan.

  2. Fry the flour without browning it.

  3. Add the stock.

  4. Cook until thickened.

  5. Stir in the chicken, ham, cream, lemon juice, mushrooms, and truffle.

  6. Season with salt and pepper.

  7. Cool on a plate.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into cork-shaped croquettes.

  2. Coat with egg and breadcrumbs.

  3. Fry in hot fat until lightly browned.

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

Chicken
Provides the main body and savoury flavour of the croquettes.
Butter
Enriches the flavour and forms the base of the thickened sauce with the flour.
Flour
Thickens the stock into a sauce that holds the filling together when cooled.
Stock
Forms the liquid of the sauce, adding savoury flavour to the filling.
Cream
Adds richness and a softer, moister texture to the filling.
Egg
Binds the breadcrumb coating so it adheres during frying.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture fully before shaping. A thickened sauce must set firm when cool, or the croquettes will be too soft to hold their shape and may split or leak 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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