Marcus Wareing served up tasty festive oat pancakes with maple syrup, bacon and berry compote on Marcus Wareing at Christmas.

The ingredients for the pancakes (makes 8) are: 250ml milk, 2 vanilla pods with seeds, 100g rolled oats, pinch of salt, 1tsp allspice and 3 eggs.

For the berry compote: frozen cherries, blackberries and red currents, 2 tbsp sugar, vanilla seeds, 3 cardamom seeds and pods.

To serve: fried bacon with maple syrup.

See recipes by Marcus in his book titled: Marcus’ Kitchen: My favourite recipes to inspire your home-cooking available from Amazon now.