Coulibiac

Name: Coulibiac
Yield: Serves Four to Five
Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients: 350 g/12 oz cooked fresh salmon; 225 g/8 oz puff pastry (or use frozen); 1 onion, finely chopped; 50 g/2 oz butter; little beaten egg; salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; juice of ½ lemon; 1 tablespoon chopped parsley; 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced; 100 g/4 oz long-grain rice, boiled (Weighed before cooking); 50 g/2 oz mushrooms, sliced

Preparation info

Serves
Four to Five

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

This is a sort of Russian fish pie, normally made with puff pastry (frozen is fine) and containing fish. Cooked fresh salmon is undoubtedly the best, but very expensive, and can be replaced with canned salmon or other cooked fish, or poached chicken.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz puff pastry (or use frozen)
350 g/

Europe
Russia
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
Pie

Method

Roll a third of the pastry out into a large rectangle about 20 cm/8 inches long and 7–5 cm/