: a sauce made with pureed vegetable or fruit and often used as a garnish
tomato coulis
raspberry coulis
Examples of coulis in a Sentence
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Dessert was Key lime cheesecake with a strawberry coulis and slices of the couple's three-tier vanilla buttercream wedding cake featuring fresh strawberries and a strawberry filling.
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Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
There’s also a vegan matcha tart with coconut and cashew milk mousse topped with raspberry coulis and a fluffy matcha waffles sprinkled with matcha and powdered sugar.
—Linda Bladholm, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
The meals were unfussy and delicious, with local touches like saskatoon-berry coulis, bison sausage, and bannock, a type of bread that was introduced by European fur traders in the 18th century and adopted into Métis culture.
—Carleigh Baker, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023
It's topped with raspberry coulis, Fruity Pebble whipped cream and cereal pieces.
—Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2023
Their adventures in my backyard included picking raspberries from the overgrown briar patch to make coulis for their cheesecake and gossiping about Barbie’s poor taste in satin jumpsuits.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
At the restaurant Koloman in New York City, chef Markus Glocker will sometimes make a lemon curd, sometimes an herb coulis, and spread it on the plate before arranging the salad on top.
—Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
The Henri resurrects an idea from the chef’s youth — a meatball made with pickled egg — placing it on shredded cabbage and carrot lit with ginger, and circling the orb with spinach coulis.
—Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
For a dramatic visual contrast to the snowy-white heart—and a nice, tart counterpoint to its unctuousness—surround it with a coulis of puréed raspberries, spiked with a few spoonfuls of crème de framboise liqueur.
—Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2022
Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
There’s also a vegan matcha tart with coconut and cashew milk mousse topped with raspberry coulis and a fluffy matcha waffles sprinkled with matcha and powdered sugar.
—Linda Bladholm, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
The meals were unfussy and delicious, with local touches like saskatoon-berry coulis, bison sausage, and bannock, a type of bread that was introduced by European fur traders in the 18th century and adopted into Métis culture.
—Carleigh Baker, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023
It's topped with raspberry coulis, Fruity Pebble whipped cream and cereal pieces.
—Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2023
Their adventures in my backyard included picking raspberries from the overgrown briar patch to make coulis for their cheesecake and gossiping about Barbie’s poor taste in satin jumpsuits.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
At the restaurant Koloman in New York City, chef Markus Glocker will sometimes make a lemon curd, sometimes an herb coulis, and spread it on the plate before arranging the salad on top.
—Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
The Henri resurrects an idea from the chef’s youth — a meatball made with pickled egg — placing it on shredded cabbage and carrot lit with ginger, and circling the orb with spinach coulis.
—Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
For a dramatic visual contrast to the snowy-white heart—and a nice, tart counterpoint to its unctuousness—surround it with a coulis of puréed raspberries, spiked with a few spoonfuls of crème de framboise liqueur.
—Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2022
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“Coulis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coulis. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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