Another of my Easter weekend dishes was this simple chicken traybake, which is also a Diana Henry recipe. It appeared in the Telegraph’s Stella magazine a few weeks ago. I tried it then and knew my family would like it. It’s perfectly suited to Aga cooking.

Ingredients

For 4-6 people, depending on hunger levels and the size of the chicken thighs

• 8 chicken thighs
• 700g sweet potatoes, washed and cut into wedges
• 2½ tbsp white miso
• 1 ½ tbsp honey or maple syrup
• 2 tbsp rice wine
• 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
• 2.5cm chunk ginger root, peeled and grated or finely chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 red chilli, halved and finely chopped (use the seeds for extra heat)
• 12-18 spring onions
• 3 tsp black or toasted white sesame seeds (or a mixture of the two)

For the final basting

• 1 tbsp white miso
• 1 tbsp honey or maple syrup
• ½ tbsp dark soy sauce
• ½ tbsp rice wine

Method

Pre-heat conventional oven to 190ºC/gas mark 5

• Place the thighs in a large roasting tin with the sweet potato wedges (they should be able to lie in a single layer)
• Mix together everything else except the spring onions and sesame seeds. Pour this over the chicken and sweet potatoes, turning everything over so the ingredients are well coated, finishing with the chicken skin-side up
• Roast for 45 minutes at the top of the roasting oven, basting every so often, and turning the wedges over
• Mix the final basting ingredients together and about 15 minutes before the end of cooking time, take the tin out of the oven and pour them over, adding the spring onions at the same time. They should become soft and slightly charred
• When cooked, sprinkle with the sesame seeds and serve
• I served ours with pak choi stir-fried in a little groundnut oil with black pepper and soy sauce