Bought too much red cabbage? Turn it into a festive nut roast – recipe

Bright and beautiful: Tom Hunt’s cabbage and ‘chest-nut roast’. Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian

I devised today’s nut roast for Oddbox, a veg box outfit that supports farmers by buying wonky fruit and veg that they might otherwise find hard to shift. It’s moist, flavourful and a fun use for outer cabbage leaves, which often get thrown away; it’s also a wonderful vegan centrepiece for a celebratory table.

Chest-nut roast