A croquette is a small breadcrumbed fried food roll containing, usually as main ingredients, ground meat(veal, beef, chicken, or fish, ham, cheese, or mashed potatoes and soaked white bread, egg, onion, spices and herbs, milk, or some combination, sometimes with a filling, such as sautéed onions, mushrooms, or boiled eggs. The croquette is usually shaped into a cylinder, disk, or oval shape, and then deep-fried. The croquette (from the French croquer, “to crunch”) gained worldwide popularity, both as a delicacy and as a fast food .
