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Chicken Potato Puffs

A fried patty made from mashed potatoes, flour, egg, and chicken.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,756 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Chicken Potato Puffs

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, mix mashed potatoes, flour, baking powder, and beaten egg until combined.

  2. Take a portion of the mixture and form small patties.

Fry

  1. Roll the patties and drop them into hot fat.

  2. Fry 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. Potato + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  2. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + chickentop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,559 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  5. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

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

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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

Mashed potatoes
Provides the bulk and soft, moist body of the puffs.
Egg
Binds the mixture so it holds its shape while frying.
Flour
Adds structure and helps the puffs set and brown.
Baking powder
Releases gas that helps the puffs rise and turn light.
Chopped chicken
Adds savory protein and texture to the filling of the puffs.

The step that matters

Fry until golden brown. The fat must be hot enough to crisp the outside quickly. If it is too cool, the puffs absorb oil, turn greasy, and may not cook through before the surface darkens.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, flour, chicken. 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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