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Melis brings the Turkish breakfast table to the USA — olives and brined vegetables taken from harvest to jar in hours, working with thousands of farmers across Türkiye.

Cube the olives beside white cheese and tomato, or open the pickles for any meze board. Shipped from our own US warehouse.

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Melis Pickles and Preserved Vegetables

Melis produces the jarred pickles and preserved vegetables that fill a Turkish meze table. The range covers pickled gherkins, beets, baby peppers and mixed vegetables in seven hundred and twenty millilitre jars and large catering formats, along with roasted red peppers and other preserved vegetables in oil. Turkish pickling relies on brine, vinegar and garlic rather than sugar, which is why Melis tursu tastes savoury and sharp and works beside grilled meat, beans and pilav rather than as a sweet relish.

Serving and storing tursu

Serve pickles cold in a small side dish, straight from the jar. Always use a clean dry fork, keep the vegetables fully submerged in their brine and refrigerate once opened. Cloudiness in the brine of a naturally fermented pickle is normal, and roasted peppers should be kept under their oil to stop them darkening.

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Storage, shelf life and reordering melis

• All stock is rotated, so you receive the freshest batch available.
• Ships from our US warehouse, free on orders over $100.
• Bulk and family sizes are stocked alongside single units.
• Reorder in one click from your account order history.

Keep melis in a cool, dry cupboard away from direct sunlight and heat, and reseal or decant anything opened into an airtight container. Buying a size you will finish within a season is better value than the largest pack available, because aroma and texture fade long before a printed date does. Regular customers tend to reorder melis every four to eight weeks.