James Martin served up slow roasted shoulder of lamb with pomegranate molasses and Persian rice for the festive season on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients are: 1 x 2kg shoulder lamb, 2 large onions, peeled and halved, 500ml stock, 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes, 4 tbs pomegranate molasses, 1 tbs cumin and 1 tbs turmeric.

For the rice: 25g butter, 2 onions, peeled and sliced, 500g basmati, 1 l water, 1 tsp salt, 50g butter, 3 bunches of dill chopped, 1 tbs dried dill, 200g broad beans and Pomegranate seeds.

See recipes by James in his book titled: Complete Home Comforts: Over 150 delicious comfort-food classics available from Amazon now.