Urid Whole – Heera

Description

Urid Beans is an extremely valued pulse crop. It is the most nutritious bean of all pulses and commonly cooked for healthy diet. These lentils have dark black skins layer rich white interiors. Urid Bean is rich in potassium, phosphorus and calcium with good quality amount of sodium.
It also has little amount of iron in it. Inner layer of black gram is oval shaped in white colour and outer is black. Urid Beans is boiled and eaten whole or after splitting into dhal.

Dal also referred to as urad dal, urd bean, urd, urid, black matpe bean, black gram, black lentil (not to be confused with the much smaller true black lentil (lens culinaris)), or white lentil (Vigna mungo), is a bean grown in southern Asia. It is largely used to make dal from the whole or split, dehusked seeds. It, along with the mung bean, was placed in Phaseolus but has been transferred to Vigna. It was at one point considered to belong to the same species as mung bean.
Black gram originated in India where it has been in cultivation from ancient times and is one of the most highly prized pulses of India. It has also been introduced to other tropical areas mainly by Indian immigrants.