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Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Skill level: Easy
Makes: 10

Ingredients

• butternut squash - 300g - peeled and deseeded
• chickpeas - 410g tin
• goat’s cheese - 100g - iced
• small onion - roughly chopped
• garlic - 2 cloves - roughly chopped
• fresh breadcrumbs - 100g
• ground cumin - 1 tsp
• parsley - good handful - chopped
• 1 egg yolk
• olive oil
• flour - for rolling
• s & p

Preheat the oven to 200C (gas mark 6)

Cut the squash into 3cm chunks and place in an oven proof dish along with the onion, garlic, cumin, and a good slug of olive oil. Cook for 30 minutes (stirring occasionally) until the squash is soft.

When cool place in a processor along with the other ingredients (apart from the flour) and blitz into a rough paste. Season to taste.

Dampen your hands and take about a tenth of the mixture and form into a flattened ball. Roll in flour and place on a plate covered with baking parchment. Continue until all the mixture is used up. This can be a messy process.

Cover with clingfilm and place in the freezer for 30 minutes.

Place on a grill pan covered with lightly oiled foil and grill on a high heat for roughly 5 minutes, turning occasionally until both sides are golden brown.

Serve with pitta, houmous and salad … or anything else you fancy.

Verdict: A tasty treat indeed. These are good hot or cold but are possibly a little too time consuming and faffy for a midweek dinner.

Drink: Another bottle of Nicolas £3.99 screwtop red.

Entertainment: Brilliant. Celebrity Master Chef has just kicked off its 2008 season and Gregg and John are as aggressively funny as ever.