Sábalo the Natural Way

Ingredients

• 1 sábalo (a large South American river shad)
• salt
• butter
• fine herbs
• pepper
• 1 lemon
• mustard
• tomato juice
• oil
• vinegar
• ají verde (green South American chili pepper)

Instructions

1. Scale, open and clean the sábalo and soak it one hour in well-salted water.
2. Stuff it with butter mixed with a handful of finely chopped fine herbs, salt and pepper.
3. Put the same mixture into two cuts made along the backbone.
4. Wrap the fish in buttered paper and cook on the grill over a moderate fire.
5. When cooked, remove the paper and serve sprinkled with lemon juice, with a spicy sauce alongside — either mustard with tomato juice, or oil and vinegar with green ají.