Nadiya Hussain served up a delicious badam cheesecake with cinnamon, filo pastry, pistachio nuts, cream and rose syrup on Nadiya’s Simple Spices.

The ingredients for the filo base and sides are: 270g pack of filo pastry, ready rolled, 100g unsalted butter, 1 tsp ground cinnamon and 1 orange, zest only (reserve the juice).

For the nutty base: 225g digestive biscuits, 100g pistachios, 110g unsalted butter, melted and Pinch of salt.

For the filling: 900g full-fat cream cheese, 200g caster sugar, 150ml soured cream, 3 tbsp plain flour, 3 medium eggs, 1 organic rose, petals removed, ½ tsp rose extract and 100g pistachios, roughly chopped.

For the syrup: Juice of 1 orange, 3 cardamom pods, crushed and 100g caster sugar.

To serve: pouring cream and rose syrup.

See recipes by Nadiya in her book titled: Nadiya’s Simple Spices available from Amazon now.