The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 4 letter word PAK CHOI
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result PAK CHOI
- Father has carp stuffed with cold and hot cabbage
- Cabbage is OK with a chip salad
- Unruly chap punched by king, attention-seeker leaves
- Greens pick a rogue to enter house? On the contrary
- 19 leaves okapi bounding around church
- Asian leaves house in mid-Sicily after Corleone initially quits mob
- No time to pick a hot recipe for cabbage
- Vegetable that’s a hot pick cooked with no end of effort
- Asian leaves stuff for the audience and most of singers
- Damage, chip oak plant
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Asian leaves" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case asian leaves = pak choi.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.