Roast Spiced Squash, Sausage Rolls, Sweet Potato & Goats Cheese Croquettas

Roasted Butternut Squash with Sweet Spices, Lime and Chili

Ingredients:
1 butternut squash; 2 tbsp cardamon pods; 1 tsp all ground spice; 2 limes; 4-5 tbsp olive oil; salt & pepper; handful of fresh, chopped coriander; juice of 1 lime; 100 g Greek yoghurt; 30 g Tahjini paste; 1 green chili

This recipe was stolen, altered and passed off as our own from the excellent 'Plenty' cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi.

Make the spicy marinade by grounding the cardamon and removing the shells. Mix it with the ground spice and some olive oil and chopped coriander. Slice your squash as desired and toss with the marinade. Season and roast for about 15-20mins depending on their size.

Mix the yoghurt and tahjini together. Remove and segment the limes and marinade in olive oil.

Once the squash is cooked remove from the oven onto a plate. drizzle with the yogurt and segmented limes. This was pretty heavy on the cardamon, Yotam, not sure if I would agree with you there - but my god the Saffron tagliatelle with spiced butter on pg 260 means I will go easy on you. Drool on keyboard.

Sausage Rolls

Ingredients:
4 good quality sausages; a handful fresh, chopped coriander; 1 red chili; salt & pepper; 1 onion; 200 g flour; 100 g (frozen) butter; little cold water; 1 egg yolk (for egg wash)

Make the pastry by mixing the flour and grated butter together with a knife adding a little water if 'kneaded' (bad-dom-dish!). (Long silence). (Longer silence). (Sound of man coughing in the distance). Bring it together with your hands and form it into a ball and chill the pastry for 30mins.

While waiting for the lazy pastry, remove the casing from the sausages and mix the meat with the coriander, chilli and diced onion and season well.

Remove the pastry from the fridge and give it a little knead. Roll it out into a thin roundy, neat, eggy-type shape. Or if you are like me, try to roll it this way, but you will probably end up with pastry that looks more like Africa or Thailand.

Form a sausage shape with the eh, sausages, this is confusing, at one edge of the pastry and roll it into the shape of an, eh, other sausage. Slice along the tops with your laser eyes and bake at 180c for about 25mins maybe. Oh don't forget the egg wash!

Sweet Potato & Goats Cheese Croquettas

Ingredients:
2 sweet potatoes; goats cheese ; 4 garlic cloves - roasted; salt & pepper; flour mixed with paprika, breadcrumbs

Roast the sweet potatoes (and garlic) until tender. Remove the garlic from it's skin and mash with the sweet potatoes - season and allow to cool. Once cooled mix the goats cheese with the sweet potatoes and a beaten egg. Shape into whatever size you prefer and toss in flour, shaking off the excess before dipping into a beaten egg and finally into breadcrumbs before frying them off until golden and crispy.

I served them with a smoked paprika mayo. Mix and egg yolk with some Dijon mustard, white wine vinegar, smoked paprika and salt. Slowly add the rapeseed oil whisking all the time until it reaches your preferred consistency.

I cannot believe that something so easy and tasty has not passed my lips before.






Shopping List:
Butternut squash €2.00
Coriander €2.00

Goats Cheese €3.00

Limes €1.20

Tahjini Paste €3.49
Chillis €2.50
Sweet Potatoes €2.25

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Total €16.44

Drinks:
Planter's Punch (white rum, orange juice, lemon juice, lime juice, Grenadine)
Pojega Valploicella Ripasso, 2007, 13%

On the stereo:
Chet Baker, Harry Belafonte