1. A Russian pastry dish consisting of a filling of fish, rice, hard-boiled eggs, and mushrooms enclosed in a pastry crust.
Usage: Also spelled koulibiac or kulebiak; Culinary term; Often served as an appetizer or main course in Russian and French cuisine

Examples

• The restaurant's signature coulibiac was filled with salmon and served with a beurre blanc sauce.
• She prepared a traditional coulibiac for the dinner party, carefully layering the fish and rice filling.
• The coulibiac's flaky pastry exterior gave way to a savory mixture of ingredients inside.
• At the Russian banquet, coulibiac was offered as one of the elegant appetizers.
• The chef demonstrated how to fold the pastry around the coulibiac filling without tearing it.