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Chicken Croquettes

A fried roll of seasoned chicken mixed with cream sauce, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the chopped chicken, salt, parsley, celery, and lemon juice.

  2. Mix in enough cream sauce to make the mixture soft enough to handle.

  3. Spread the mixture on a plate and let it cool.

  4. Shape the cooled mixture into rolls.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each roll in fine breadcrumbs, then dip in the beaten egg, and roll in breadcrumbs again.

  2. Heat oil in a pan until smoking hot and fry the croquettes for 1 minute until golden.

  3. Drain on paper towels and serve with 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. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Chicken + celerytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Forms the main body of the croquette filling.
Cream sauce
Binds the mixture and makes it soft enough to shape into rolls.
Fine breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.
Beaten egg
Helps the breadcrumb coating stick and adds structure to the crust.

The step that matters

Cooling the filling before shaping. A warm, soft mixture cannot be rolled cleanly and may fall apart. Cooling lets the cream sauce set the filling so the rolls hold their shape through breading and frying.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, parsley, lemon, cream, sauce, egg):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, lemon, cream, sauce, 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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