Eight pats provided for this pasta (9)
I believe the answer is:
spaghetti
'this pasta' is the definition.
(spaghetti is a kind of pasta)
'eight pats provided' is the wordplay.
'provided' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'provide' mean this).
'eight'+'pats'='eightpats'
'eightpats' is an anagram of 'SPAGHETTI'.
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for spaghetti that I've seen before include "Strings of pastas" , "meal" , "Long thin pasta" , "Birmingham interchange" , "Stranded fare" .)