oorud

Noun

urad (uncountable)

1. (India) Vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal.
   • A lasagne that feels like lasagne except made from mung and urad beans; the whole thing is then served – as if to remind you, again, of what it is not – with a thumb of cucumber.2025 February 14, Morwenna Ferrier, “‘Butter is a perception’: inside the UK’s first plant-based Michelin-starred restaurant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   black gram, black lentil, urad bean, urd bean