Pasta with very garlicky sauce containing a bit of ricota on top (7)
I believe the answer is:
ravioli
'pasta' is the definition.
(ravioli is a kind of pasta)
'very garlicky sauce containing a bit of ricota on top' is the wordplay.
'very' becomes 'v' (abbreviation).
'garlicky sauce' becomes 'aioli' (aioli is a kind of sauce. I am not sure about the 'garlicky' bit.).
'containing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a bit of' suggests taking the first letters.
'on top' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go above others).
The first letter of 'ricota' is 'r'.
'v' placed within 'aioli' is 'avioli'.
'avioli' after 'r' is 'RAVIOLI'.
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ravioli that I've seen before include "Fare" , "Filled form of pasta" , "Filled pasta squares" , "Filled pasta envelopes" , "dish in the trattoria" .)