Zydeco Green Beans

Recipe Ingredients

2 1/4 cups	533ml	Water
3/4 cup	177ml	White vinegar
2 tablespoons	30ml	Sugar
1 tablespoon	15ml	Crushed mustard seeds
4 tablespoons	60ml	Garlic cloves - thinly sliced (medium)
3		Bay leaves
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Salt
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Tabasco pepper sauce
1 lb	454g / 16oz	Trimmed green beans

Recipe Instructions

Zydeco Green Beans is actually a redundancy. The exuberant music of Louisiana's black French-speaking Creoles is called zydeco, an idiomatic phonetic version of les haricots, French for snap beans. Serve these green beans as a relish, or as "stirrers" for Bloody Marys.

In a large saucepan, stir together the water, vinegar, sugar, mustard seeds, garlic, bay leaves, salt and Tabasco sauce. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, cover, and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the beans. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes, until tender-crisp. Arrange the beans in a shallow dish and cover them completely with the vinegar mixture. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Serve cold.

Source:
Elizabeth Powell

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