North African Paella - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1/4 cup olive oil
    1 onion, chopped
    1 roasted red pepper, chopped
    2 cloves garlic, chopped
    3 vine-ripened tomatoes, chopped
    1 (8 ounce) salmon fillet, cut into pieces
    5 ounces merguez sausage, cut into pieces
    6 cups vegetable broth, divided
    1/2 cup white wine
    1 teaspoon ground cumin
    salt and ground black pepper to taste
    12 shrimp, shelled and deveined
    12 mussels, cleaned and debearded
    2 (5.8 ounce) boxes couscous
Preparation
    Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion, roasted red pepper, and garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, salmon fillet, and merguez sausage; cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
    Pour 2 1/2 cups broth and white wine into the pot. Season stew with cumin, salt, and pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and stir in shrimp; simmer until opaque, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and add mussels; cover and let stand until mussels open, about 5 minutes.
    Bring remaining 3 1/2 cups broth to a boil in a separate pot. Stir in couscous. Remove from heat and let stand until couscous absorbs broth, about 5 minutes.
    Serve couscous in shallow bowls; ladle stew on top.

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