SPICED PEAR SYRUP RECIPE RECIPES

Preheat your oven to 180°C fan. Make your tahini sauce first so that it can sit in the fridge and firm up slightly. In a small bowl whisk together the tahini, lemon juice and zest, vinegar, mustard, soy sauce or tamari, maple syrup, salt and pepper. Add a dash of water if you’d like the sauce to have a runnier consistency.

Put into the fridge and leave to thicken. Put the pears and cabbage on a baking tray and sprinkle over the za’atar spice blend. Drizzle over the olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Put into the oven and roast for about 20 minutes. They will cook quicker the softer they are, so be sure to keep an eye on them. Once cooked, remove from the oven and let them cool slightly.

To make the dosa, put the grated carrot, onion and garlic into a bowl and mix to combine. Add the gram flour, chopped herbs, cumin, turmeric, nutritional yeast and salt and pepper, and mix again. Slowly pour in the water and begin to mix. You want the batter to be runny, with no floury lumps. You can add a little more water or flour if need be.

Over a medium heat, add a small amount of oil to your frying pan and heat it up, swirling it around the whole pan. Using a ladle, gently pour in some of the batter. You can make the dosa as small or as big as you like, filling the whole pan with one dosa or making a few at a time (this will vary your frying time). Fry for a few minutes on one side, until the surface starts to show bubbles and the bottom is browning. Flip and repeat, frying for another couple of minutes.

To serve, place your dosa on a plate and top with the desired amount of pear and cabbage. Drizzle over the tahini and finish off with some sliced onions, sesame seeds and a drizzle of olive oil. Season with additional salt and pepper if necessary.

Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas 4. Grease a 20cm square cake tin and line with baking parchment.

In a food processor, whizz together the flour, ginger, cinnamon, bicarbonate of soda and butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Set aside.

Put the golden syrup, black treacle, light brown sugar and diced stem ginger in a pan. Heat gently until all the sugar has dissolved, then cook for another minute over a high heat and remove.

Beat the eggs and milk into the syrup mixture, then mix into the flour and butter mixture. Pour into the cake tin and bake for 45 minutes.

Meanwhile, stir the ginger syrup and 2 tablespoons boiling water into the icing sugar until smooth. Remove the cake from the oven and allow it to cool for 10 minutes, then pierce all over with a skewer. Pour over the icing sugar mixture and leave to set before serving.

Cook's tip: if you have leftover slices that are going slightly stale, use them in a gingery version of a bread and butter pudding. Just switch white bread slices with the ginger loaf slices and sprinkle chopped crystallised ginger over them instead of sultanas.