Clue: Baked dish containing cut of beef and hard pate mixture is only a very brief hit (5,2,3,3)
Answer: FLASH IN THE PAN
Explanation: Baked dish containing cut of beef and hard pate mixture is only a very brief hit (5,2,3,3)
**FLAN** ("baked dish") *containing* **SHIN** ("cut of beef") + ***(h pate)** [anag:*mixture*] where H = hard