Earlier this week, Peter Benefer (above), an executive manager at Eden Brown Built Environment, beat tax accountant and now friend Isca Watson, photographer Elaine Borges-Ibanez and social work manager Lakhan Singh on the show that sees strangers attend each other’s houses for dinner parties over the course of a week in the hope of winning a £1k cash prize.

Here’s Benefer’s winning menu:

• Starter: crispy poached egg on creamed spiced lentils with crispy pancetta
• Main course: creamy chicken and chorizo pie – complete with a pastry-shaped bee (he also keeps bees) – and cumin-spiced sweet potato mash
• Dessert: White chocolate, vanilla and honey (can you spot the theme yet?) panna cotta with a raspberry coulis

Benefer told Recruiter the competitive streak, tenacity and commitment needed to excel in recruitment certainly helped him land the top prize, but the pressure of winning for non-profit organisation Hedgehog Emergency Rescue Bingley Yorkshire played a part with his nerves.

“I’d already committed to give the money to Hedgehog Emergency Rescue Bingley Yorkshire and I thought that would take the pressure off me. However, it made the pressure worse as I thought so many hedgehog lives would be at stake!”

You can add to Benefer’s generous donation to Hedgehog Emergency Rescue Bingley Yorkshire (HERBY) by clicking on the link here.

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