Two teenage chefs from the same school will go head-to-head after making it through to the finals of a cooking competition.

Highsted Grammar School pupil Eden Allsworth won the senior section of the Kent Young Chef Awards last year.

Now she hopes to retain her title after being chosen again to take part in this year’s contest.

Last time she wowed judges with her pan-roasted belly of pork and line-caught seabass with apple wood-smoked mash and a medley of autumn vegetables.

This time she will be cooking salt marsh lamb cooked three ways with chickpea and butternut squash ragout and buttered black cabbage when the live cook-off takes place at The View Restaurant, K College, Tonbridge, on Friday.

She said “Since I was crowned Kent Young Chef in 2012, Produced in Kent has offered me opportunities such as cooking for Prince Michael of Kent and taking part in a cooking demonstration at the Kent County Show.”

The 15-year-old will compete alongside fellow student Priya Reynolds, 13.

She will cook a dish called Priya’s autumn duck – a roast duck breast with a cauliflower puree, butternut squash crisps and a red wine, orange and Kent plum jus.

The other two contestants in the category are Ciara McGauley, 14, from Weald of Kent Grammar School, Tonbridge, and Billy-Joe Simmons from Harbour Specialist School, Dover.

All finalists will receive a certificate, named chef jacket, a mini hamper of Rubens apples and a day’s work experience at one of three Kent restaurants owned by celebrity chef Richard Phillips.

The winners will receive a trophy, cooking equipment and a week’s experience at Rowhill Grange Hotel in Dartford.