Cooked incorporating Zen, perhaps, or its opposite! (8)
I believe the answer is:
frenzied
'opposite' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'cooked incorporating zen perhaps' is the wordplay.
'cooked' becomes 'fried' (frying is a kind of cooking).
'incorporating' indicates putting letters inside.
'perhaps' is an anagram indicator.
'zen' with letters rearranged gives 'enz'.
'fried' going around 'enz' is 'FRENZIED'.
'or its' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for frenzied that I've seen before include "Wildly excited or agitated" , "Violently agitated" , "Frenetic" .)