Hmm, not what I had in mind, but I had a feeling there might be more than one answer. You are right: roast can be used as an adjective to mean roasted, as in roast beef.
Another hint: The original 5-letter word, as well as the 7-letter word formed by adding -ed, are nouns and never verbs! (That's why I thought it would make a prickly puzzle.)
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I credit Colin with correctly answering the question.
mozart, I'm not sure I would call those synonyms -- 'curry' is a noun, 'curried' is an adjectival participle (actually I'm not sure if that's correct linguistic taxonomy). In the sentence, "The curried chicken was made with curry", however, the two words are not interchangeable.
Some people might refer to a 'curried chicken' as 'curry chicken', in which case mozart is also credited with a correct answer. To bolster his case, I see that quite commonly in supermarkets, for instance, that aisles are labeled "can tuna" rather than "canned tuna." There's probably a linguistic term for this form of language shift over time, but I don't know what it is.
To sum up the hints so far, I'm thinking of a five-letter noun xxxxx in the category of "herbs and spices" (thus food-related) which is synonymous with the noun xxxxxed. In fact, each is given as a synonym of the other in most dictionaries.
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