Cooked or malted, the French sausage (10)

I believe the answer is:

mortadella

'sausage' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'cooked or malted the french' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'the french' becomes 'la' (one of the French words for 'the').
'or'+'malted'='ormalted'
'ormalted' anagrammed gives 'mortadel'.
'mortadel'+'la'='MORTADELLA'

(Another definition for mortadella that I've seen is " Sausage".)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.

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