James Martin served up French Vichy style carrots with pan fried pork chops on James Martin’s French Adventure.

The ingredients are: 150g caster sugar, 250g butter, 5 star anise, carrots, with tops on.

For the pork chops: 4 pork loin chops, about 1.5kg, 2tbsp olive oil and Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

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