Pumpkin Cheese and Chive Scones

These pumpkin savoury scones are good with any serving of food or in between meals.

Ingredients make 14 scones

450 g self raising flour

35 g brown sugar

1 tsp Chinese 5 spice

¼ tsp ground nutmeg

8 g salt

70 g unsalted butter

200 ml milk

170 g pumpkin puree

130 g shredded cheddar cheese

10 g chopped chives

Method

Preheat oven to 200ºC fan forced (220ºC normal bake). Combine flour, sugar, Chinese 5 spice, nutmeg and salt in a large bowl. Add the butter and use your hands to rub the butter into the flour until it resembles bread crumbs. Place milk, pumpkin puree, cheese and chives in another bowl and combine. Add liquid mix to dry mix and combined to dough. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and pat the dough into a 3 cm thickness. Cut the scones with a 5cm scone cutter and transfer to a lightly floured tray or baking paper lined tray with space in between. Bake for approx 12 min. until golden brown on top.

Note: Try freshly chopped parsley or coriander instead of chives.