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Croquettes of Chicken

A fried pastry shell filled with a seasoned chicken and ham mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Croquettes of Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the minced chicken, ham, chopped mushrooms, and parsley.

  2. Season the mixture with salt and cayenne pepper.

  3. In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat.

  4. Stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute.

  5. Gradually add the milk, stirring until smooth to create a panada.

  6. Mix the panada with the chicken mixture.

  7. Let the mixture cool on a plate.

Shape the croquettes

  1. Roll out the pastry thinly.

  2. Cut the pastry into circles using a cutter.

  3. Place a small amount of the chicken mixture in the center of each pastry circle.

  4. Wet the edges of the pastry circles with water.

  5. Fold the pastry over the filling.

  6. Press the edges to seal.

Coat, fry and serve

  1. Dip each croquette in beaten egg.

  2. Coat the croquette with fine breadcrumbs.

  3. Fry the croquettes in hot oil until golden brown.

  4. Drain the croquettes on paper towels.

  5. Arrange the croquettes on a serving dish.

  6. Garnish with fresh parsley.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold chicken
Forms the main body of the filling, giving it savoury flavour and substance.
Butter
Enriches the panada and carries flavour into the filling.
Flour
Thickens the milk with butter into a panada that binds the filling together.
Milk
Liquid that gelatinises with the flour to form a smooth, cohesive panada.
Ham
Adds salty, savoury flavour to the chicken filling.

The step that matters

Cooling the filling before shaping. The panada must be cool and firm enough to hold its shape. A warm, soft filling will spread, burst through the pastry, or leak fat during frying.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Garlicfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, ham, mushroom, butter, flour, milk, pepper. 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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