Pulse from East covered by general embargo (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
broad bean
'pulse' is the definition.
'east covered by general embargo' is the wordplay.
'east' becomes 'e' ('E' can be a synonym of 'east').
'covered by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'general' becomes 'broad' ('broad' can be similar in meaning to 'general'**).
'embargo' becomes 'ban' (I've seen this before).
'broad'+'ban'='broadban'
'e' put inside 'broadban' is 'BROAD BEAN'.
'from' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for broad bean that I've seen before include "Green vegetable" , "plant" .)