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Alose Grillée Maître d'Hôtel
A whole spring shad, scored, oiled and grilled slowly over gentle heat, served with parsley-and-lemon maître d'hôtel butter and lemon. Shad's rich, sweet flesh needs nothing more.

- YieldOne 1.5 kg shad; serves 4
- Hands-on35 min
- Total1 h 17 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
Fish
- 1whole shad (about 1.5 kg), scaled and gutted
- 30 mlolive oil
- to tastesalt and freshly ground black pepper
Maître d'hôtel butter
- 100 gunsalted butter, softened
- 6 gflat-leaf parsley, very finely chopped
- 3 gfine salt
- 1 pinchfreshly ground black pepper
- 1 tsplemon juice
To serve
- 2lemons, halved
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