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Chicken Croquettes with Truffles

Chicken croquettes made with shredded chicken and truffles, coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes with Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the croquettes

  1. In a bowl, mix the shredded chicken, chopped truffles, salt, and pepper.

  2. Form the mixture into small patties.

  3. Dip each patty in milk, then coat with breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a pan over medium heat.

  2. Fry the croquettes until golden brown on both sides.

  3. Drain on paper towels 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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 croquettes and provides the main savory filling.
Truffles
Adds a distinctive earthy aroma to the chicken filling.
Breadcrumbs
Forms a crisp golden coating that browns during frying.
Eggs
Not stated how they are used in this record.
Milk
Dampens the patties so the breadcrumbs adhere to the surface.

The step that matters

Coat and fry over medium heat. Breadcrumbs brown quickly, so medium heat lets the croquettes turn golden and heat through while the coating stays crisp rather than burning.

“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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