Taxi covered in melted cheese and spicy marinade (9)

I believe the answer is:

escabeche

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'spicy marinade' is the definition.
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'taxi covered in melted cheese' is the wordplay.
'taxi' becomes 'cab' (synonyms).
'covered in' is an insertion indicator.
'melted' indicates anagramming the letters.
'cheese' with letters rearranged gives 'eseche'.
'cab' going inside 'eseche' is 'ESCABECHE'.

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