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Make Italian dish, going at midpoint for a curry (7)

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I believe the answer is:

dopiaza

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'dish going at midpoint for a curry' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'make italian' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'make' could be 'do' (do can mean to make or prepare) and 'do' is present in the answer.
'italian' could be 'i' (abbreviation for Italian) and 'i' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for dopiaza that I've seen is " meal from India".)

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