Neat recipes for cooking (7)
I believe the answer is:
precise
'neat' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'recipes for cooking' is the wordplay.
'for cooking' indicates anagramming the letters.
'recipes' with letters rearranged gives 'PRECISE'.
(Other definitions for precise that I've seen before include "Highly accurate and sharply exact" , "Express" , "Exact like recipes" , "with accuracy" , "'Exact, accurate (7)'" .)