White rice beans

I found this on the Internet.

The ricebean seems to be related to the Japanese Adzuki bean and the Chinese Mung bean, although the ricebeans is very small. Japan now imports tons and tons of red ricebeans from Thailand to be used in Japanese sweets along with the Adzuki bean. Also, all of these beans, including the Aduzki bean seem to be related to the field pea.

The ricebean requires no soaking. It can be added to uncooked rice and cooked along with it.

Taxonomy and origin
This section is taken from Lawn (1995) except where stated.

Like other Asiatic Vigna species, ricebean belongs to the subgenus Ceratotropis (Mar�chal et al, 1978). Within the various cultivated species in this subgenus there appear to be three more-or-less isolated secondary gene pools: radiata (mungbean, green gram)-mungo (black gram, urd bean), domesticated in India; umbellata (ricebean)-angularis (adzuki bean), domesticated in SE Asia and NE Asia respectively; and aconitifolia (moth bean, mat bean)-tribolata (pillipesara bean, jungle bean), domesticated in S Asia. Vigna glabrens is thought to be a cross between V. radiata and V. umbellata, domesticated in SE Asia. The centre of diversity and presumably of origin of ricebean in Indo-China – it is thought to be derived from the wild species V. umbellata var. gracilis, found naturally from southern China through the north of Vietnam, Laos and Thailand into Burma and India, and which is thought to be cross-fertile (Tomooka et al, 1991).

http://www.ricebean.org/about.htm

Check on ranchogordo.com. They might have a recipe for them. They are dried bean purveyors

I googled and this site popped up: http://www.zursunbeans.com/beans/

White rice beans are the last beans on the bean list--and there are also green rice beans.

Sounds like you could cook them as you do lentils.

Are these the beans? I'm intrigued b/c I'm looking for more options for GF meals. http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/2646

I never heard of them, but there are myriad bean varieties. Are they simply black beans renamed? Beans are pretty interchangeable in recipes so I would use them for any recipe that calls for beans of a similar size.