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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes made with chopped chicken, mushrooms, onion, butter, flour, broth, sherry, eggs, and breadcrumbs, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

  2. Sauté the grated onion until browned.

  3. Stir in the flour.

  4. Gradually add the chicken broth or water with mushroom liquid.

  5. Add the chopped chicken, mushrooms, salt, pepper, and sherry.

  6. Stir until boiling.

  7. Remove from heat.

  8. Stir in the yolks of the eggs.

  9. Pour the mixture onto an oiled dish.

  10. Let the mixture cool.

Shape and coat

  1. Wet your hands with cold water.

  2. Form the mixture into cork-shaped croquettes.

  3. Roll the croquettes in cracker dust.

  4. Dip the croquettes in beaten eggs.

  5. Roll the croquettes in crumbs again.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes in hot lard until golden brown.

  2. Remove the croquettes with a skimmer.

  3. Drain the croquettes on brown paper before serving.

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 + sherrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main bulk and meaty texture of the croquettes.
Mushrooms
Add moisture, earthy flavour, and body to the filling.
Flour
Thickens the broth into a binding sauce that holds the filling together.
Eggs
Yolks enrich and bind the filling, while beaten eggs help the crumbs adhere.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps cook the onion and flour base.
Sherry
Adds acidity and aromatic depth to the savoury filling.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A warm, loose filling will not hold its cork shape and may break apart in the hot lard. Cooling lets the starch-thickened mixture firm up enough to form and coat cleanly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, butter, flour, pepper, sherry, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, butter, flour, pepper, sherry, egg. 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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