Lovely starter? Mashed pulse into dish (6,4)

I believe the answer is:

lentil soup

'dish' is the definition.
(lentil soup is a kind of dish)

'lovely starter? mashed pulse into' is the wordplay.
'starter?' suggests taking the first letters (I've seen 'starters' mean this).
'mashed' indicates an anagram.
The initial letter of 'lovely' is 'l'.
'pulse'+'into'='pulseinto'
'pulseinto' is an anagram of 'entilsoup'.
'l'+'entilsoup'='LENTIL SOUP'

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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