Cheese on grilled meat cut is a Japanese dish (7)

'a japanese dish' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'cheese on grilled meat cut' is the wordplay.
'cheese' becomes 'edam' (Edam is an example).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'grilled' is an anagram indicator.
'cut' means to remove the last letter.
'meat' with its last letter removed is 'mea'.
'mea' with letters rearranged gives 'ame'.
'edam'+'ame'='EDAMAME'

'is' acts as a link.

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