Salad ingredient in a bowl right at the front (6)
I believe the answer is:
radish
'salad ingredient' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'a bowl right at the front' is the wordplay.
'bowl' becomes 'dish' (I've seen this before**).
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation).
'at the front' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a'+'dish'='adish'
'adish' put after 'r' is 'RADISH'.
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for radish that I've seen before include "Sir had this vegetable" , "Plant with crisp root eaten raw" , "Pungent, red salad vegetable" , "3 down" , "Daikon or mooli" .)