Role is played with fried food (7)
I believe the answer is:
rissole
'food' is the definition.
(I know that Rissole is a food)
'role is played with fried' is the wordplay.
'played' indicates anagramming the letters (letters playing around).
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fried' becomes 's' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'role'+'is'='roleis'
'roleis' is an anagram of 'risole'.
'risole' placed around 's' is 'RISSOLE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rissole that I've seen before include "Fried ball of minced food" , "Fried meat/breadcrumb ball" , "Minced meat or fish deep fried in egg and breadcrumbs" , "Small cake of deep-fried minced meat" , "Meatball fried in crumbs" .)