Hello and welcome to the bean page, where beans reign supreme.
When you eat your beans, you can fry them and add salt, pepper, and lemon for an extra refreshing treat. The beans you were given are called mat beans. They are native to South Asia. If you enjoy them you can get more at your local South Asian grocery store. Here is a recipe for Mat/Moth bean curry by Kanan Patel from spiceupthecurry.com