Grocery Essentials

Öncü Mixed Paste

Turkish mixed salça: tomato and pepper paste blended.

Öncü mixed paste is tomato salça and pepper salça combined in one jar. Saves reaching for two, and gives you a balanced base straight away. Slightly sweet, slightly savoury, brick-red. Goes into anything a plain tomato paste would: chicken stews, lentil soups, bulgur pilaf, rice bases. Bristol families who use both jars often keep this as the weekday version and reach for pure tomato when a recipe needs it. 370g bottle is the compact everyday size.