Croquettes de Volaille

Name: Croquettes de Volaille (Chicken Croquettes)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Dash sugar; 1 cup chopped, cooked chicken; ¼ pound butter; Fine dry bread crumbs; ¾ cup minced ham; Salt and pepper to season; 2 egg whites; 1 cup minced mushrooms; 1½ cups light cream; 6 tablespoons flour; ½ cup flour; Peanut oil for French-frying; 2 tablespoons sherry; 3 eggs

Chicken Croquettes

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

Ingredients

¼ pound butter
¾ cup minced ham
1 cup

Europe
France
Roussillon
Comte de Foix
Mediterranean
Languedoc

Method

Sauté ham and mushrooms in butter for 1 minute. Add flour and stir into a paste. Add cream and stir-cook until very thick. Season with salt, pepper, and sugar. Stir in chicken.
Beat eggs. Add some hot sauce to eggs and mix. Gradually add eggs to the sauce. Add sherry. Heat, but do not boil. Pour into a buttered, square pan and cover with a buttered piece of f