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Sauce lost when cooking stew (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cassoulet

'stew' is the definition.
(I know that cassoulet is a type of stew)

'sauce lost when cooking' is the wordplay.
'when cooking' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked up into a new form).
'sauce'+'lost'='saucelost'
'saucelost' anagrammed gives 'CASSOULET'.

(Other definitions for cassoulet that I've seen before include "French stew made with meat and beans" , "dish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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