The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PILAU
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More clues leading to the result PILAU
- Bend a rim around dish
- Rice recipe: unlimited Apulian cooking
- Raised edge on gold dish
- Maud sheds clothes after endless lager and spicy rice
- Rice that's soft I praise endlessly
- Sauce lifted over golden rice dish
- Dish from the French, outwardly more Italian
- Spicy rice, alluring eastern cuisine
- Laid up, poorly, missing date with a dish
- Flipping Dua Lipa’s eating what?
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The straight part
We know that "dish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dish = pilau.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PILAU mean?
PILAU noun- A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
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