Si King served up a tasty Thai Pot Roast Chicken on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients are: 1 chicken, 1 Thai basil sprig, a few coriander sprigs, 1 lemongrass stalk, bruised, 2 lime leaves, bruiseda and a pared piece of lime zest 3 garlic cloves, bruised salt.

For the pot: 2 tbsp olive oil, 8 banana shallots, peeled, 4 tbsp Thai red curry paste (shop-bought or see p.266), 200ml coconut milk 200ml chicken stock 1–2 tbsp fish sauce and 2 lime leaves, shredded juice of ½ lime.

To serve: roughly torn coriander leaves roughly torn Thai basil, 3 spring onions, halved and shredded and 2 red chillies, finely sliced lime wedges.

See recipes by Simon in the book titled: The Hairy Bikers’ Ultimate Comfort Food available from Amazon now.