Spicy Chickpea and Kale Soup

When I was at the Cordon Bleu, learning to cook, I don’t think chickpeas were ever mentioned. Certainly we weren’t taught to cook them, and no one had heard of gram flour, which is the helpfully gluten-free flour made from chickpeas. Kale only crossed my horizon, and my taste buds, in the eighties. Now it sold as a super-food (it provides a great deal of fibre as well as essential vitamins and minerals) and is available everywhere. I prefer the curly variety. It is quick to cook, has a wond