James Martin served up tasty buttermilk fried chicken thighs with ham, loaded potato skins and a chilli, black treacle and cherry coke sauce for the festive season on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients are: 4 large baking potatoes, 100g butter, 200g cooked ham, diced, 6 spring onions, sliced, 200g grated taleggio cheese, 600g chicken thighs, 200g plain flour, 1 tbsp paprika, 2 tsp onion salt, 1 tsp black pepper, ½ tsp celery salt, ½ tsp dried sage, ½ tsp garlic powder, ½ tsp ground allspice, 1 tsp dried oregano, 1 tsp dried marjoram, 300ml buttermilk and Vegetable oil for frying.

For sauce: 2 Garlic cloves, crushed, 100g dark brown sugar, 1 tsp smoked paprika, 1 tsp celery salt, 50ml cherry coke, 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce, 25ml black treacle, 300ml ketchup and ½ red chilli, diced.

To serve: 1 small bunch of Mint , chopped, 1 small bunch of coriander, chopped and 4 Spring onions, sliced.

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