Dressed lettuce with muted recipe (8)

I believe the answer is:

costumed

'dressed' is the definition.
(costuming is a kind of dressing)

'lettuce with muted recipe' is the wordplay.
'lettuce' becomes 'cos' (cos is a kind of lettuce).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'recipe' is an anagram indicator.
'muted' with letters rearranged gives 'tumed'.
'cos'+'tumed'='COSTUMED'

(Another definition for costumed that I've seen is " Garbed".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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