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Chicken Croquette

A fried roll of seasoned chicken mixed with cream sauce, coated in breadcrumbs and served with a thin cream sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken Croquette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine chicken, salt, celery salt, cayenne pepper, white pepper, onion juice, parsley, and lemon juice.

  2. Mix with thick cream sauce until soft enough to handle.

  3. Once cool, shape the mixture into rolls.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each roll in fine bread crumbs, then dip in beaten egg, and roll in crumbs again.

  2. Fry in smoking hot fat for one minute until golden brown.

  3. Drain on paper and serve with a thin cream sauce.

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 + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the main body of the croquette filling, giving it substance and flavor.
Thick cream sauce
Binds the chopped chicken into a soft mixture that holds its shape when rolled.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.
1 egg, beaten
Helps the bread crumb coating adhere and set during frying.

The step that matters

Frying in smoking hot fat. The fat must be very hot so the crumb coating crisps and browns quickly before the soft filling heats through and leaks or absorbs excess oil. Cooler fat produces greasy, pale croquettes.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, celery, pepper, onion, parsley, lemon, cream):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, celery, pepper, onion, parsley, lemon, cream. 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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