Dietary supplement's almost essential minimum with beginner to cooking (7,1)
I believe the answer is:
vitamin c
'cooking' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.
'dietary supplement's almost essential minimum with beginner' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'dietary supplement' could be 'vitamin' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'vitamin' is located in the answer.
A single letter 'c' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for vitamin c that I've seen before include "Scurvy defender" , "dietary stipulation found in Brussels" , "Ascorbic acid" .)