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Turks are confused, finding gold in vegetable dish (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sauerkraut

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'dish' is the definition.
(sauerkraut is a kind of dish)

'turks are confused finding gold in vegetable' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'are' could be 'a' (short for 'are', historical unit of measurement) and 'a' is present in the answer.
'gold' could be 'au' (Au is the chemical symbol for gold) and 'au' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for sauerkraut that I've seen before include "German course" , "Shredded cabbage fermented in brine" , "German pickled cabbage" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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