BBC Food - Recipes - Roasted pumpkin soup

Ingredients

• trimmings and skin from the pumpkin (see below)
• 700ml/1¼ pints chicken stock or vegetable stock
• 1 onion , peeled
• handful parsley stalks
• 3-4 sprigs fresh thyme
• 1 cinnamon stick
• ½ head garlic
• 3 celery sticks, roughly chopped
• 2 carrots , roughly chopped
• 4 acorn squash
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1.5kg/3lb 4oz pumpkin , stalk and skin removed and reserved, seeds removed and reserved, cut into even wedges
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 onion , thinly sliced
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tsp caraway seeds
• 2 tbsp clear honey
• 4 tbsp double cream
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• seeds from the pumpkin (see above), cleaned
• pinch ground cinnamon
• 3 rashers pancetta , fried until crisp (optional)
• 50ml/2fl oz crème fraîche
• 2 tbsp chopped fresh chives