Title: Zydeco Green Beans ****
Categories: Pickle Appetizer Vegetable Spice
Yield: 1 Servings

2 1/4	c	Water
3/4	c	White Vinegar
2	tb	Sugar
1	tb	Crushed Mustard Seeds
4	md	Garlic Cloves, Thinly Sliced
3		Bay Leaves
1 1/2	ts	Salt
1 1/2	ts	Tabasco Pepper Sauce
1	lb	Trimmed Green Beans

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.

From: The Tabasco Cookbook.

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