Name: Pumpkin Soup With Cheese Straw Snakes
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: For the soup; 1 tbsp sunflower oil; 2 onions, peeled and chopped; 2 carrots, peeled and diced; 600g/1lb 5½oz pumpkin, peeled and diced; ¼ red chilli, finely diced; 1 clove garlic, crushed; 900ml/1½pt chicken or vegetable stock; 50ml/2fl oz double cream (optional); Salt and freshly ground black pepper For the cheese straw snakes; 1 x 320g packet puff pastry, defrosted if frozen; 25g/1oz Parmesan, grated; 25g/1oz Gruyere, grated; 1 egg, beaten; Poppy seeds, for sprinkling; Black olives, for eyes; Red pepper, for tongues

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