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Chicken Croquettes

Breaded, fried chicken patties shaped into pyramids or cylinders.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 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 chopped chicken, parsley, onion juice, lemon juice, and salt.

  2. In a saucepan, melt butter over medium heat, then add pepper, flour, celery salt, and salt.

  3. Stir in milk gradually to create a white sauce, cooking until thickened.

  4. Mix the white sauce with the seasoned chicken mixture and let it cool.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into pyramids or cylinders.

  2. Roll each piece in breadcrumbs, then dip in beaten egg, and roll in breadcrumbs again.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in deep fat until golden brown.

  2. Drain on paper towels, garnish, and serve.

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

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

  4. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + celerytop 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 bulk of the croquette and gives it its main filling flavor.
Flour
Thickens the butter and milk into a white sauce that binds the chicken together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the base of the white sauce.
Milk
Liquid that turns the flour and butter into a smooth white sauce.
Egg
Binds the breadcrumb coating so it adheres and browns when fried.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A warm, loose white sauce is soft and sticky, so the croquettes can slump or split. Cooling lets the starch set the filling so it holds its shape through breading and frying.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, lemon, butter, pepper, flour, celery. 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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