Outer Isles Gardening Pumpkin and Chickpea Soup

Ingredients

• About 1kg pumpkin or squash
• 4 small shallots finely chopped
• 4 garlic cloves thinly sliced
• ½ medium bulb fennel finely chopped
• 3 leeks, thinly sliced
• 2 tbsp fresh ginger grated
• 250g chickpeas (either tinned or soaked and cooked)
• 25g diced smoked pancetta
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 800ml chicken stock
• 100ml dry cider (or white wine)
• juice ½ lemon
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp fennel seeds ground
• seasoning
• 50-100ml double cream