Black Matpe
Vigna mungo black gram urad bean mungo bean or black matpe bean Sanskrit ma is a bean grown in the Indian subcontinent At one time it was considered to belong to the same species as the mung bean
The product sold as black lentil is usually the whole urad bean whereas the split bean the interior being white is called white lentil It should not to be confused with the much smaller true black lentil Lens culinaris
