Possible Clues:

• It's an imitation, of course
• Scoff awkward to rustle up for a first course, perhaps
• For tasty snack, pluck outermost bananas
• Bogus reptile's followed by press wanting juicy fodder
• Dish not made from the reptile it's named for
• Starter made from a calf's head
• Scoff to rustle up, fishy first course?
• Make fun of swimmer thus leading the old course
• A really neat dish, but an imitation of course
• First course for which bovine head is used as substitute