Food dish absurdly presented to heathen idol (4,2,3,4)
I believe the answer is:
toad-in-the-hole
'food dish' is the definition.
'absurdly presented to heathen idol' is the subsidiary indication.
'absurdly presented' indicates anagramming the letters.
'to'+'heathen'+'idol'='toheathenidol'
'toheathenidol' with letters rearranged gives 'toadinthehole'.
(Other definitions for toad-in-the-hole that I've seen before include "Battered sausage" , "Sausages and batter dish" , "Bangers and batter" , "Batter pudding containing sausages" , "Sausages baked in batter" .)