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Composition of red lentils covering offbeat Jamaican-style bread (3,7)

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I believe the answer is:

das kapital

'composition of red' is the definition.
(red can mean a communist)

'lentils covering offbeat jamaican-style bread' is the wordplay.
'lentils' becomes 'dal' (lentil dish).
'covering' is an insertion indicator.
'offbeat jamaican-style' becomes 'ska' (genre of music).
'bread' becomes 'pita' (pita is a kind of bread).
'ska'+'pita'='skapita'
'dal' going around 'skapita' is 'DAS KAPITAL'.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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