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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of chicken mixed with cream sauce, egg yolks, and seasonings, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 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 cream sauce

  1. In a pan, melt the butter over medium heat and stir in the flour until well combined.

  2. Gradually add the milk, stirring continuously until the sauce is smooth and thickened.

Shape the croquettes

  1. Combine the chopped chicken, lemon juice, onion juice, celery seed, parsley, and egg yolks with the cream sauce while hot.

  2. Scoop the mixture into tablespoon-sized portions onto a board covered with bread crumbs.

  3. Shape the portions into round croquettes and set aside.

  4. In a bowl, mix the eggs and water without beating, then season with salt and pepper.

  5. Dip each croquette in the egg mixture, then roll in bread crumbs again.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes in boiling fat 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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

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 bulk and savory flavor of the croquettes.
Flour
Thickens the butter and milk into a cream sauce that binds the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the cream sauce and its flavor.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the cream sauce, giving it a smooth, creamy body.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help the hot filling set firm and hold its shape.
Eggs
Form the egg wash that helps bread crumbs stick to the outside.

The step that matters

Make the cream sauce smooth before adding the chicken. Stirring the milk in gradually keeps the flour evenly dispersed, so the sauce thickens without lumps. A smooth, thick sauce binds the filling so the croquettes hold their shape when rolled and fried.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, lemon, celery, parsley, egg, cream. 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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