Starters of artichokes served with chicken pasty (5)
I believe the answer is:
ashen
'pasty' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'starters of artichokes served with chicken' is the wordplay.
'starters of' says to take the initial letters.
'served with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'chicken' becomes 'shen' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'artichokes' is 'a'.
'a'+'shen'='ASHEN'
(Other definitions for ashen that I've seen before include "So vampire might appear" , "Anaemic looking" , "Pale of face, quite grey" , "White" , "Greyish" .)