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Reportedly grab a dal, when served up - it's healthy-ish food (6,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

caesar salad

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'food' is the definition.
(Caesar salad is an example)

'reportedly grab a dal when served up' is the wordplay.
'reportedly grab' becomes 'caesars' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'when served up' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'dal' backwards is 'lad'.
'caesars'+'a'+'lad'='CAESAR SALAD'

'it's healthy-ish' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for caesar salad that I've seen before include "Seasoned mixture of cos lettuce and croutons" , "Dish containing lettuce" , "Dish of dressed lettuce with croutons" , "Lettuce-based dish" , "leaves meal - with 14a" .)

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