Kitty takes to a weird ingredient (6)
I believe the answer is:
potato
'ingredient' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'kitty takes to a weird' is the wordplay.
'kitty' becomes 'pot' (both can mean a shared fund).
'takes' means one lot of letters goes inside another (take can mean to capture or invade).
'weird' indicates an anagram.
'to'+'a'='toa'
'toa' anagrammed gives 'ato'.
'pot' placed into 'ato' is 'POTATO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for potato that I've seen before include "Plant tuber eaten as a vegetable" , "Vegetable with eyes" , "Vegetable - a hot one is trouble" , "The veg is too apt, oddly" , "The humble spud" .)