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Most of tortoise cooked in dish (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

risotto

'dish' is the definition.
(risotto is a kind of dish)

'most of tortoise cooked' is the wordplay.
'most of' means to remove the last letter.
'cooked' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked into a new form).
'tortoise' with its final letter removed is 'tortois'.
'tortois' is an anagram of 'RISOTTO'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for risotto that I've seen before include "It has roots in Italian rice-based dish" , "Italian course" , "Italian food" , "F" , "Rice/stock dish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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