First recipe has a plate with a salad vegetable (6)
I believe the answer is:
radish
'a salad vegetable' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'first recipe has a plate' is the wordplay.
'first recipe' becomes 'r' (1st letter of 'recipe').
'has' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'plate' becomes 'dish' (type of plate).
'r'+'a'+'dish'='RADISH'
'with' is the link.
(Other definitions for radish that I've seen before include "Small red salad vegetable" , "3 down" , "Red cold salad ingredient" , "Pungent red salad root" , "Root vegetable used in salads" .)