Ingredient used for dips in Thai cooking (6)

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tahini

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'ingredient used for dips' is the definition.
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'in thai cooking' is the wordplay.
'cooking' is an anagram indicator (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'in'+'thai'='inthai'
'inthai' with letters rearranged gives 'TAHINI'.

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(Other definitions for tahini that I've seen before include "Sesame-seed based foodstuff" , "Paste of sesame seeds" , "Sesame paste; in a hit (anag.)" , "Sesame seed paste" .)

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