Gino D’Acampo served up a tasty linguine with pesto, green beans and capers dish on Gino’s Italian Coastal Escape.

The ingredients are: 70ml extra virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling, 1 large garlic clove, peeled and halved, 50g pine nuts, 60g large fresh basil leaves, 70g freshly grated pecorino cheese, 50g capers, drained and chopped, 500g dried linguine, 150g fine green beans, trimmed and halved, Salt and freshly ground black pepper.

See Gino’s recipes from the series in his new book titled: Gino’s Italian Coastal Escape: A Taste of Italy from the Aeolian Islands to Elba, available from Amazon now.