James Martin served up a tasty cheat’s salmon coulibiac for the festive season on Home Comforts at Christmas.

The ingredients are: 50g butter, 500g mixed fresh exotic mushrooms, such as shiitake or enoki, cleaned and sliced, 250g baby spinach leaves, 2 x 375g packets all-butter puff pastry, plain flour, for dusting, 1 whole salmon (approximately 3kg), skin scaled and removed, gutted, pin boned and filleted (alternatively use ready prepared sides of salmon), 3 free-range egg yolks, beaten and sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

To serve: 1kg cooked, buttered new potatoes and dressed green salad.