The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word RADISH
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result RADISH
- Salad ingredient, root primarily, a hottie?
- Salad vegetable is hard unfortunately
- It's usually hot or fairly cool?
- Root of resistance to a recipe
- Vegetable starters to rival any course
- Somewhat excellent / bit of salad
- Impulsive, gobbling small girl’s vegetable
- Spoke up, at first ignored, wanting hot veg
- Artist – good-looking lass
- Vegetable pot used as base by artist
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What does RADISH mean?
RADISH noun- A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.
- The root of this plant used as food. Some varieties are pungent and usually eaten raw in salads, etc., while others have a milder taste and are cooked.
- With a distinguishing word: some other plant of the Raphanus genus or Brassicaceae family.