Roasted pumpkin soup with garlic bread croutons

This pumpkin soup is the perfect recipe for fall – it's smokey and a little bit spicy from smoked paprika; it has crispy pancetta and crunchy garlic bread croutons on top to give it texture. The bread is like a soft landing from all the flavors. Garlic is in this recipe 3 times – roasted with the pumpkin, fresh in the soup, and in the croutons – so it's perfect to keep Dracula away. You'll come back for second or third helpings, and it eat cold from the fridge in the middle of the night wearing your bedsheet like an evil Disney Queen.

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Everything featured in the video was purchased be me.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:03 How to roast pumpkin
4:42 How to make garlic bread croutons
7:18 Vegetable prep
8:09 How to make crispy pancetta
9:28 How to quickly soften onions
10:43 Make the soup
11:50 What do bay leaves taste like?
12:39 How to safely blend hot soup
15:35 Add cream, vinegar, and adjust seasoning
16:43 How to serve the soup

[mynameisalicek]

I LOVE PUMPKIN SOUP! Thank you for this!

[bobroth]

Your references/ puns are almost as delicious as your food. "Puree for us" indeed... That soup is amazing, I bet!

[j-vws]

I watched the whole video again. I really only needed the recipe, but it's all about you. You are delightful! So as these aerial floods are drenching So California free-ways and hillsides the lightning and thunder are backing up your soundtrack and humour. I should be cooking, but here I am, thoroughly enjoying this. Life is good. Thank you!

[kayleenhamelin]

I ain't afraid of no Dracula with this recipe. Looks so good

[mynameisalicek]

Okay it's hard to cut open a pumpkin but you really showed up how to do it properly!

[originalvincie]

I made your soup last night. Following your instructions the taste was fantastic. I had to beg Dracula to come in my garlic breath so heavy LOL. I enjoy your cheeky delivery, and dude, where did you get those grinders?