Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo from the Two Greedy Italians serves up pesto with Silk handkerchief pasta on Saturday Kitchen.

The ingredients for the pasta are: 250g Italian ‘00’ flour, plus extra for dusting, 1 free-range egg, 3 free-range eggs, yolks only, 2 tbsp olive oil and pinch salt.

For the pesto: large bunch of small-leaved basil, about 50 leaves, about 10g coarse sea salt, 40g pine kernels, 4 garlic cloves, peeled, 100ml olive oil ad 80g parmesan or pecorino, freshly grated.