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Very good soup I cooked (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pious

'very good' is the definition.
(pious can mean very religious)

'soup i cooked' is the wordplay.
'cooked' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked into a new form).
'soup'+'i'='soupi'
'soupi' anagrammed gives 'PIOUS'.

(Other definitions for pious that I've seen before include "Good" , "Devout" , "Sanctimonious" , "God-fearing" , "Saintly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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