Last-minute Mother's Day dinner

The menu

• Light meals & snacks

  Pea and pancetta soup

• Main course

  Crispy parmesan chicken with soft basil tomatoes

• Desserts

  Warm chocolate and amaretto pudding

Menu ingredients

Serves 4

• Fruit and vegetables

  • 10g/½oz fresh tarragon leaves

  • salt and pepper

  • 1-2 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced

  • handful of fresh basil leaves

  • 4 wedges of lemon

• Tins, packets and jars

  • 1 litre/1¾ pints chicken stock

  • 1 tbsp plain flour

• Cooking ingredients

  • pinch salt

  • flour, for dusting

  • 75g/3oz fresh white breadcrumbs

  • olive oil, for cooking

  • coarse sea salt

  • 2 tbsp caster sugar

  • 1 vanilla pod, halved lengthways, seeds removed

• Biscuits, snacks and sweets

  • 100g/3½oz dark chocolate, finely chopped

  • 30g/1oz amaretti biscuits, crushed

• Dairy, eggs and chilled

  • 50g/2oz finely grated Parmesan cheese

  • 2 free-range eggs, beaten

  • large knob of butter

  • 500ml/18fl oz milk

  • 50g/2oz unsalted butter

• Meat, fish and poultry

  • 4 very thin slices pancetta (cut on the thinnest possible setting)

  • 4 chicken breasts, skinless

• Other

  • 500g/1lb 2oz frozen peas

  • 6 tomatoes, halved

  • 80ml/2½fl oz Amaretto (or other almond liqueur)