James Martin served up a tasty hot sweet and sour soup on James Martin Saturday Morning.

The ingredients are: 1 litre water, Carrot trimmings, 1 leek, sliced, 6 button mushrooms, sliced, 2 sticks of celery and ½ onion.

To infuse the stock: 2 lemon grass stalks, sliced, 6 kaffir lime leaves, shredded, 50g palm sugar, 2 tbs tamarind paste, 3 chillies, sliced and Vegetable oil.

To fill the bowls: 200g tofu, sliced, 100g beansprouts, 1 red pepper, thinly sliced, 100g mangetout, thinly sliced, 2 limes juice and zest.

To serve: A few coriander leaves.

See recipes by James in his book titled: James Martin’s Saturday Morning Cookbook available from Amazon now.