Serve the cakes as they are, drizzled with lemon juice, or with fried eggs, smoked salmon or grilled bacon. If you can’t get hold of dried Iranian lime, use a teaspoon of lime zest, or just leave it out altogether

Ingredients

• olive oil 2 tbsp
• onions 2, roughly chopped
• carrots 2, diced
• celery 2 sticks, diced
• garlic 2 cloves, roughly chopped
• pumpkin or butternut squash 1kg after peeling, cut into chunks
• chicken stock 1.2 litres
• double cream 150ml
• nutmeg for grating (optional)

Toasties

• Colston Bassett 150g, rind removed
• mozzarella 1 ball, drained and grated
• sage leaves chopped to make 1 tbsp
• bloomer 8 slices
• butter

Method

• Heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the onions, carrots, celery and garlic until soft. Add the pumpkin and cook for 5 minutes, then tip in the stock and simmer until the pumpkin is soft and you can mash it with the back of a spoon. Add the cream and cook gently for 2-3 minutes. Put everything in a blender and whizz until smooth (or use a stick blender). Gently reheat to serve, grating over a little nutmeg, if you like.

• Meanwhile, to make the toasties, mash together the blue cheese and mozzarella with the sage. Divide the mixture between the bloomer slices to make 4 sandwiches. Butter the outside of the sandwiches then fry on both sides in a non-stick frying pan until golden and the cheeses have melted (if you need to do this in 2 batches, you can keep the sandwiches warm in a low oven). Cut into fat fingers then serve with the soup.

Leek, Potato and Colston Bassett Cakes by The Guardian-https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/nov/03/yotam-ottolenghi-cheese-recipes-leek-stilton-red-cabbage-galette