James Martin served up a tasty pistou soup with spaghetti and bacon on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients are: 75g spaghetti, broken into half inch pieces, 25ml olive oil, 100g bacon lardons, 1 onion, peeled and diced, 1 garlic clove crushed, 2 plum tomatoes, diced, 1 leek, sliced, 1 carrot, diced, 1 courgette, diced, 100g frozen peas, 100g black eye peas, drained, 250ml water, 1 thick slice of bread, cubed, Salt and pepper.

For the Pistou: 2 large bunches basil, 1 garlic clove, 25g grated parmesan and 100ml olive oil.

See recipes from James Martin in his book titled: More Home Comforts: 100 new recipes from the television series, available at Amazon now.