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The French put in more meat with rice dish (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pilau

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'rice dish' is the definition.
(I know that pilau is a type of rice dish)

'the french put in more' is the wordplay.
'the french' becomes 'la' (one of the French words for 'the').
'put in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'more' becomes 'piu' (I've seen this before).
'la' inserted inside 'piu' is 'PILAU'.

'meat with' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for pilau that I've seen before include "Oriental rice dish" , "Foreign dish" , "Type of rice" , "Eastern dish" , "Spiced rice dish" .)

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