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Rice Croquettes

Rice croquettes are oblong rolls of cooked rice mixed with eggs, butter, sugar, lemon rind, and coated in cracker crumbs, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,366 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Rice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil rice with enough water to cook it and add salt.

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs, then mix in butter, sugar, and lemon rind.

  3. Combine the rice with the egg mixture.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into oblong rolls and roll in cracker crumbs.

  2. Fry the rolls in hot oil until golden brown.

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. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

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

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the rice mixture together and help the croquettes hold their shape while frying.
Cooked rice
Forms the bulk of the croquette and gives its soft, tender interior.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mixture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the exterior brown in the frying oil.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns as the rolls fry.

The step that matters

Frying the rolls in hot oil until golden brown. If the oil is not hot enough, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy while the centre stays cold. Hot oil sets the crumb coating quickly, so it crisps and browns before the egg-bound interior breaks apart.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, egg, butter, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Raisinfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, egg, butter, sugar. 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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