Sauteed Salmon with Sweet Potato, Papaya Rougaille, and Israeli Couscous

Ingredients

• 1.5 ounces butter 
• 0.5 teaspoon cumin powder 
• 1 clove garlic chopped
• 1 clove garlic minced
• 0.5 inch disk ginger fresh finely chopped
• 0.5 bunch green onions finely chopped (scallions)
• 8.5 ounces israeli couscous 
• 0.5  juice of lemon juiced
• 0.1 cup olive oil 
• 0.5 small onion chopped
• 0.5  papaya finely chopped
• 0.5  onion red finely chopped
• 0.5 tablespoon red wine vinegar 
• 0.5 large roasted pepper red peeled seeded cut into small dice
• 0.5 pinch saffron threads spanish
• 26.3 ounce salmon fillet 
• 5 servings salt 
• 5 servings salt and pepper black freshly ground
• 3  mushroom caps 
• 5 servings fried spaghetti for garnish
• 1 large sweet potatoes and into salted diced cooked
• 0.5  zucchini salted diced cooked

Equipment

• frying pan
• sauce pan
• oven
• baking pan

Directions

1. Combine the onions, ginger, tomatoes, papaya, garlic, and green onions.
2. Add lemon or lime juice, red wine vinegar, 1/8 cup olive oil, salt, and pepper.
3. Mix this up 2 to 3 hours before serving, and let stand, covered, but not in the refrigerator.
4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
5. To make the couscous: Fill a saucepan about 3/4 full with water, a little salt, then a little saffron for color. Bring to a boil, add the couscous and cook for about 2 minutes. Wash the couscous with cold water and drain well.
6. Drain the sweet potato and zucchini and add to the couscous. Stir in the red pepper.
7. Heat the butter in a small pan and saute the shiitake mushrooms with the garlic, onion, and cumin. When the mushrooms are soft, add the mixture to the couscous.
8. Place the couscous in a baking dish and keep warm in the oven.
9. Season salmon with salt and pepper.
10. Heat the olive oil in a pan and saute the salmon fillets for 1 minute per side for medium rare.
11. Serve the salmon on a bed of couscous. Heap the rougaille over salmon.
12. Garnish with lengths of fried spaghetti, so that they are reaching up from the salmon.