Food evenly rolled, cooked in hollow leaves (8)
I believe the answer is:
dolmades
'food evenly rolled cooked in hollow leaves' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'food evenly rolled cooked in hollow leaves' is the wordplay.
'evenly' indicates alternate letters (the letters in even-numbered positions).
'rolled' says the letters should be written backwards (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 centre removed is 'ls'.
The alternating letters of 'food' are 'od'.
'od' reversed gives 'do'.
'made' inserted inside 'ls' is 'lmades'.
'do'+'lmades'='DOLMADES'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dolmades that I've seen before include "Greek food" , "Exotic dish" .)