Mary Berry served up a tasty sausage and red pepper hotpot with bacon and new potatoes on Mary Berry’s Simple Comforts.

The ingredients are: 1 tbsp sunflower oil, 8 spicy pork sausages, 4 rashers smoked bacon, finely chopped, 1 onion, sliced, 1 red pepper, seeds removed and cut into large chunks, 1 large carrot, peeled and diced, 1 garlic clove, crushed, 300ml chicken stock, 400g tin chopped tomatoes, 2 tbsp sun-dried tomato purée, 2 fresh thyme sprigs, 250g baby new potatoes, skin on, sliced into thick discs, salt and freshly ground black pepper, and freshly cooked green vegetables, to serve.

See recipes by Mary in her book titled: Mary Berry’s Simple Comforts available from Amazon now.