You need to have this delightfully warming pumpkin soup on hand when autumn rolls around and there are pumpkins aplenty. It works just as well with dense orange squashes like butternut.

A warming winter pumpkin soup; the kick of ginger and chilli is set off by soothing coconut milk. If you can't get hold of pumpkin, try butternut squash. This meal, if served as six portions ...

For this soup, Vanya says, "People are so surprised when I let them know you can cook a whole pumpkin in the oven. It saves you chopping, and the flesh of the pumpkin becomes lovely and tender.