Vampire beaten by sides of ricotta with fresh vegetables (9)
I believe the answer is:
primavera
'with fresh vegetables' is the definition.
(term from Italian cooking)
'vampire beaten by sides of ricotta' is the wordplay.
'beaten' indicates anagramming the letters (letters beaten up or destroyed).
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'sides of' means to remove the middle letters (only the letters on the sides remain).
'ricotta' with its middle taken out is 'ra'.
'vampire' is an anagram of 'primave'.
'primave'+'ra'='PRIMAVERA'
(Other definitions for primavera that I've seen before include "picture of Botticelli" , "graceful painting" , "Botticelli painting" .)