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Coulis

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, coulis means: A smooth sauce made from puréed fruit or vegetables, often strained.

In Turkish: pürüzsüz sebze veya meyve sosu, kuli

How it is used

Used for sweet and savoury sauces; name the fruit or vegetable before coulis.

Example sentences

  1. Raspberry coulis surrounded the vanilla dessert.

    The fruit sauce contributes both colour and flavour.

  2. The fish sat on a spoonful of red pepper coulis.

    Coulis can be a vegetable sauce in a savoury dish.

Common collocations

  • raspberry coulis
  • red pepper coulis
  • plateTo arrange cooked food on a plate so that it is ready to be served and looks attractive. The noun plating means the way a dish is arranged.
  • ingredientOne of the foods or other items, such as flour, oil or salt, that are combined to make a particular dish.

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