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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of seasoned chicken mixed with breadcrumbs and white sauce, shaped into croquettes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley 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

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine chicken, celery seed, salt, lemon juice, onion juice, parsley, and paprika.

  2. Mix in bread crumbs and white sauce until well combined.

  3. Add the egg and mix until the mixture is soft and creamy.

  4. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Fry

  1. Heat deep fat until hot enough to brown a crumb of bread in 40 seconds.

  2. Fry the croquettes 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.

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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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  3. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

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 croquettes and provides the main savory flavor.
White sauce
Adds moisture and creaminess so the mixture holds together and stays soft.
Bread crumbs
Absorbs moisture and helps the mixture firm up enough to shape.
Egg
Binds the mixture so the croquettes hold their shape while frying.

The step that matters

Heat the deep fat to the right temperature. If the fat is too cool, the croquettes absorb oil and turn greasy before the crust browns. If it is too hot, the outside browns or burns before the centre heats through. The bread-crumb test helps check that the fat is hot enough.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, celery, lemon, parsley, bread, sauce, 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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