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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of ground chicken mixed with sauce and onion, shaped into croquettes and breaded.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Grind the steamed chicken until fine.

  2. Mix the ground chicken with thick white sauce, grated onion, and season with salt.

  3. Chill the mixture until firm.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Dip each croquette in bread crumbs, then in beaten eggs, and again in bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes in deep 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. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  4. Onion + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Sauce + oniontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sauce and onion barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,474 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main body and savory flavor of the croquette filling.
Thick white sauce
Binds the ground chicken and keeps the filling moist and creamy.
Eggs
Bind the bread crumb coating so it adheres and sets during frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden-brown coating when fried.
Onion
Adds aroma and savory flavor to the filling.

The step that matters

Chill the mixture until firm. A soft filling falls apart when shaped and breaks open in hot oil. Chilling firms the starch-thickened sauce so the croquettes hold their shape while frying.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, bread, 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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