The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word HARISSA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result HARISSA
- Spicy paste ingredient of Bihari’s sauces
- Hot sauce includes about 50 per cent rice with it
- Sourced in Kandahar is salty, spicy paste
- Share kiss, both naked, with sex appeal – it’s hot stuff
- Cathar is sanctimoniously offering oily concoction
- A filling in hot recipe, is it?
- Recalled a small gentleman with a hot spicy paste
- Spicy sauce, mostly strong is it?
- A rash is developing — it’s the hot paste
- Hot paste in achar is savoury
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The straight part
We know that "hot paste" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case hot paste = harissa.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does HARISSA mean?
HARISSA noun- A traditional Armenian dish similar to keşkek; a kind of homogeneous porridge made of previously stewed and boned chicken and coarsely ground soaked wheat.
- A North African spice mix, containing chillis, garlic and salt, used as both a condiment and an ingredient.