Cooked neat new North American dish (7)
I believe the answer is:
antenna
'dish' is the definition.
(as in a satellite dish)
'cooked neat new north american' is the wordplay.
'cooked' is an anagram indicator.
'new' becomes 'n'.
'north american' becomes 'na'.
'neat' anagrammed gives 'ante'.
'ante'+'n'+'na'='ANTENNA'
(Other definitions for antenna that I've seen before include "receiver" , "Radio aerial" , "Transmitting aerial" , "Insect's feeler" , "Insect's sensory appendage" .)