Colourful type of rice dish from southern Spain (6)
I believe the answer is:
cerise
'colourful type' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'rice dish from southern spain' is the wordplay.
'rice dish' becomes 'ceri' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'from' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'southern' becomes 's' (abbreviation).
'spain' becomes 'e' (abbreviation for Espana).
'ceri'+'s'+'e'='CERISE'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cerise that I've seen before include "Colour of ripe cherries" , "Light red colour" , "Reddish-pink colour" , "Cherry red colour" , "Color of ripe cherries" .)