James Martin served up tasty Singapore chilli crab with egg noodles for Antonio Carluccio on James Martin: Home Comforts.

James says: “This fiery, full-flavoured Singapore-style dish is a quick and easy substitute for a Friday night takeaway.”

The ingredients are: 2 tbsp vegetable oil, 10cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled, finely chopped, 3 garlic cloves, chopped, 3 red birds’-eye chillies, finely chopped, 4 spring onions, root trimmed, green and white parts roughly chopped, 150ml tomato ketchup, 75ml sweet chilli sauce, 75ml hoisin sauce, 1 tbsp fish sauce, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp caster sugar (optional), 200g fine egg noodles, 1 x 1kg whole cooked crab, dead man’s fingers removed, crabmeat chopped, 2 tbsp roughly chopped fresh mint leaves and 2 tbsp roughly chopped fresh coriander.