Sugar with pot of tea (7)

I believe the answer is:

panocha

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'sugar' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'with pot of tea' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'pot' becomes 'pan' (I've seen this before).
'of' becomes 'o''.
'tea' becomes 'cha' (cha is a type of tea).
'pan' put next to 'o' is 'pano'.
'pano'+'cha'='PANOCHA'

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