Ravinder Bhogal's savoury cheesecake with balsamic glazed vegetables

Name: Ravinder Bhogal's savoury cheesecake with balsamic glazed vegetables
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 2 h 5 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 400 g small raw beetroot, trimmed and scrubbed; 2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing; 150 g pack No.1 Baby Rainbow Carrots; 1 tbsp clear honey, plus extra for drizzling; 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar; 60 g sugar snap peas; 1 handful pea shoots; 8 walnut halves, toasted and roughly chopped; 25 g pack flat leaf parsley, leaves picked

Ravinder Bhogal's easy-to-bake savoury cake is a striking and playful way to add a cheese course to your party. The cake is crowned with tender balsamic and honey-glazed vegetables, which help cut through its lavish richness. Serve it with a selection of crackers or good bread.

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Gluten freeVegetarian

Serves8
CourseMain meal
Prepare45 mins
Cook2 hrs 5 mins
Total time2 hrs 50 mins
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400g small raw beetroot, trimmed and scrubbed
2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing
150g pack No.1 Baby Rainbow Carrots
1 tbsp clear honey, plus extra for drizzling
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
60g sugar snap peas
1 handful pea shoots
8 walnut halves, toasted and roughly chopped
¼ x 25g pack flat leaf parsley, leaves picked

Cheesecake

2 x 280g packs full-fat soft cheese
125g pack British Soft Goats' Cheese
150g pack Waitrose Duchy Organic Cropwell Bishop Blue Stilton, rind removed, crumbled
100g Somerset Brie, chopped
4 eggs
1 unwaxed lemon, zest of all, 2 tbsp juice
4 sprig/s sprigs lemon thyme, picked, plus extra to serve

Start by making the cheesecake. Preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4. Grease a 23cm round springform cake tin with oil and line the base and sides with baking parchment. In a food processor, whizz the cheeses until smooth, then whizz in the eggs one at a time. Gently fold in the lemon zest and juice, lemon thyme and a little sea salt, then pour into the prepared cake tin.
Put on a baking tray, bake for 30 minutes, then turn the oven down to 160ºC, gas mark 3, and bake for another 15-25 minutes, or until just set, covering with foil if the top is becoming too dark. Cool completely in its tin (ideally covered in the fridge overnight), before transferring to a platter.
For the vegetables, preheat or turn the oven up to 190ºC, gas mark 5. Put the beetroot in a roasting tin, drizzle with 1 tbsp oil and cook for 20 minutes. Add the carrots to the tin with the remaining 1 tbsp oil and cook for a further 35-40 minutes or until the vegetables are just tender. Set aside to cool, then peel the beetroot and cut into wedges. Slice the carrots in half vertically. Put the vegetables back in the roasting tin; season, drizzle with the 1 tbsp honey and the balsamic, then roast in the oven for another 10 minutes until glazed. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool.
Bring a pan of water to the boil. Blanch the sugar snap peas for 2 minutes, drain, refresh in ice-cold water and set aside. To serve, scatter pea shoots over the cake and arrange the roasted vegetables, sugar snaps and walnuts on top. Sprinkle over the parsley and extra thyme, then drizzle with more honey.