How to Use coulis in a Sentence

coulis

noun
  • Serve on a white plate with berry coulis.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Serve with berries, a fruit coulis or a fresh squeeze of lemon.
    — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2021
  • Spoon some of the coulis onto a plate.
    — Amisha Gurbani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Unmold the frozen blackberry coulis and place it in the center.
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Vibrant carrot coulis, red shiso sorbet and herb oil dotted the plate.
    — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
  • The poached chicken medallions were fanned out and drizzled with a tomato coulis.
    — Adam Rapoport, Bon Appetit, 20 July 2017
  • Add the strawberry coulis and mix until well combined.
    — Amisha Gurbani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Tomato coulis is a thin puree of tomatoes that’s also ideal for the freezer.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The yellowtail crudo is jaggedly sliced, swimming in an overwhelming coulis.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2019
  • End your meal with the azuki brownie, which gets some unique flavoring with the addition of green tea milk, red bean mousse and raspberry coulis.
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • For dessert, the choices are Vacherin classique or warm chocolate almond cake with raspberry coulis and hazelnut ice cream.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 17 July 2019
  • Inside, there’s a core of pistachio praline with both raspberry mousse and strawberry coulis.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
  • Serve with a strawberry coulis for the full strawberry experience.
    — Amisha Gurbani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Consider ordering a glass of strawberry milk and the Cote Est with the raspberry coulis.
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Serve with artichoke cherry tomato asparagus tip salad and yellow pepper coulis.
    — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 2 Jan. 2018
  • And at 189, the French chef’s first full-service restaurant, and at his bakery, there’s kouign-amann, Cronuts and pork shoulder with red pepper coulis.
    — Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
  • The bit of showmanship is usually performed by a chef other than Kim, who has moved onto the next task of adjusting salt in a coulis or carving quail into quarters.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The doughnuts are coated in cinnamon-sugar and served with dipping sauces including Nutella, raspberry coulis and crème Anglaise.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 6 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Desserts are $14 and include a flourless chocolate cake, cheesecake with raspberry coulis and vanilla Affogato supreme, which blends Italian gelato with a double espresso.
    — Miami Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Chocolate Cake with a Mirror Glaze Viewers everywhere can bet the finale is sure to be as drama-filled as Jeremiah's wedding cake request (a two-tier dark chocolate cake with raspberry coulis filling and a mirror glaze, of course).
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At Sunda New Asian, Vanilla Ice Cream & Turon Spring Roll served with premium kaluga caviar, ube rice crispy, lychee, cookie flakes, seasonal fruit, passion fruit coulis, and ube glaze.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Behind the glass case, jewel-like pastries shimmered, including their signature pink croissant, made without food coloring but instead crafted from AOP butter and Valrhona raspberry chocolate, filled with raspberry coulis and pastry cream.
    — Jenn Rice, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025

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