Clodagh McKenna served up a tasty and healthy sunshine soup with carrot, ginger, pesto and bread on This Morning.

The ingredients are: 2 tbsps olive oil, 4 carrots, peeled and roughly chopped, 2 cloves of garlic, crushed, 2 inches of fresh ginger, peeled and grated, 1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped, 1 potato, peeled and roughly chopped and 1 litre of chicken or vegetable stock.

For the pesto: 100g fresh flat leaf parsley, 50g hazelnuts, toasted, 50g Parmesan cheese, freshly grated, 150ml extra virgin olive oil, Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

See recipes by Clodagh in her book titled: Clodagh’s Suppers: Suppers to celebrate the seasons available from Amazon now.