Food evenly rolled, cooked in hollow leaves (8)

'food evenly rolled cooked in hollow leaves' is the definition.
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'food evenly rolled cooked in hollow leaves' is the wordplay.
'evenly' indicates alternate letters (the letters in even-numbered positions).
'rolled' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (letters roll back).
'cooked' becomes 'made' ('make' can be a synonym of 'cook').
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'hollow' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (the word is hollowed out).
'leaves' with its middle removed is 'ls'.
The alternate letters of 'food' are 'od'.
'od' back-to-front is 'do'.
'made' put within 'ls' is 'lmades'.
'do'+'lmades'='DOLMADES'

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