James Martin served up a tasty chicken and tarragon pie with puff pastry and water chestnuts on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients are: 1 whole chicken, spatchcocked, 2 carrots, halved, 1 leek, halved, 1 onion, peeled and halved, 1 bay leaf and 6 black peppercorns.

For the Sauce: 50g butter, 50g plain flour, 750ml stock, 200ml double cream, 100g water chestnuts and 1 small bunch of tarragon, chopped.

For the Rough puff: 400g plain flour, ¼ tsp salt, 150g butter, cubed, 200ml water and 1 egg yolk.

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