James Martin served up a tasty shepherd’s pie with braised shoulder of lamb and Vichy-style carrots on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients are: 1 x 2kg shoulder lamb, 2 large onions, peeled and halved or diced, 300ml red wine, 500ml chicken Stock, Rosemary, few sprigs, 1 bulb of garlic, halved and To top – mash butter cream.

For the carrots: 8 large carrots peeled, 4 star anise, 75g caster sugar and 25g butter.

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