Princess penning a recipe, which may involve chops (6)
I believe the answer is:
karate
'princess penning a recipe which may involve chops' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'princess penning a recipe' is the wordplay.
'princess' becomes 'kate' (Duchess of Cambridge, born Kate Middleton).
'penning' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'recipe' becomes 'r' (abbreviation in medical prescriptions).
'a'+'r'='ar'
'kate' going around 'ar' is 'KARATE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for karate that I've seen before include "Martial art (with chopping?)" , "SPORT/GAME" , "Japanese system of unarmed combat" , "fighting system" , "Combative sport" .)