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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of seasoned chicken mixed with eggs, breadcrumbs, and butter, shaped into croquettes.

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

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. In a pot, combine chicken broth and butter; bring to a boil until thickened like mush.

  2. Stir in 4 eggs and mix well; set aside to cool.

  3. Add the chopped chicken, salt, pepper, onion, and parsley; mix thoroughly with a fork.

Shape and coat

  1. Once cool, shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Roll each croquette in bread crumbs, then in beaten egg yolks, and again in bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry in hot lard 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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  4. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Provides the main filling and savory flavor of the croquettes.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm when cooked.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor to the thickened base.
Chicken broth
Cooks down with butter to form a thick base that holds the filling together.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer coating when fried.
Egg yolks
Help the bread crumbs adhere and promote even browning on the coating.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A warm, soft mixture is too loose to hold its shape and can crack or slump when coated. Cooling lets the eggs and starch-thickened base firm up so the croquettes keep their form through breading and frying.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, parsley, bread, butter, 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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