Cooking sprat too for meaty meal (3,5)
I believe the answer is:
pot roast
'meaty meal' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'cooking sprat too' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates anagramming the letters (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'sprat'+'too'='sprattoo'
'sprattoo' with letters rearranged gives 'POT-ROAST'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pot roast that I've seen before include "joint preparation" , "Slowly cooked meat" , "Meat cooked in a container" , "Dish of braised meat" .)