James Martin served up a tasty Christmas roast duck with boulangere potatoes and cranberry apple sauce for the festive season on Home Comforts at Christmas.

The ingredients are: 1.5kg potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced, 2 onions, thinly sliced, 500ml chicken stock, 1 x 2kg whole duck, giblets removed, 1 clementine, cut in half, 1 cinnamon stick, ½ tsp Chinese five-spice powder, 75g butter, 1 head Savoy cabbage, leaves shredded, 50g dried cranberries and sea salt and freshly ground black pepper./

For the spiced cranberry apple sauce: 2 Bramley apples, peeled, cores removed, roughly chopped, 200g fresh cranberries, 5 tbsp cider and 2-3 tbsp caster sugar, to taste.