The black-eyed pea or black-eyed bean is a legume grown around the world for its medium-sized, edible bean. It is a subspecies of the cowpea, an Old World plant domesticated in Africa, and is sometimes simply called a cowpea.
Black Eye Bean is also considered a traditional food in some of the Southern United States on New Year’s Day. In India, Egypt & some other countries, black-eyed peas are called lobia or lobhia as well. The bean is very common across India. In North India, black-eyed peas are called lobia or rongi and cooked like daal, served with boiled rice.
