This Soup Inspired Lidia Bastianich’s Upcoming 2021 Cookbook
Ben Gabbe/Getty Images By Emily Weaver/Sept. 16, 2021 1:02 pm EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Lidia Bastianich spent much of 2020 and the pandemic revisiting one of her favorite recipes: rice and potato soup. In fact, the family-friendly dish inspired the theme of her forthcoming cookbook titled “Lidia’s a Pot, a Pan, and a Bowl: Simple Recipes for Perfect Meals,” which comes out this October. In an interview with Taste of Home, the Italian chef and restaurateur explained that the vegetable soup is both “economical and delicious,” making it the perfect backbone for a cookbook centered around easily achievable one-pot meals.
Fans of Bastianich know that she loves a dish that can be reinvented a million ways on a dime — literally and figuratively. While her rice and potato soup is made with Idaho potatoes, carrots, celery, tomato paste, long-grain rice, Grana Padano, and a collection of herbs, many of those ingredients can be swapped out to fit your desired taste — except, of course, for the potato, rice, and Grana Padano cheese. “None of that grated cheese works because it loses some of the flavor. Get a chunk,” Bastianich quipped.
This Soup Inspired Lidia Bastianich’s Upcoming 2021 Cookbook
Ben Gabbe/Getty Images
By Emily Weaver/Sept. 16, 2021 1:02 pm EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Lidia Bastianich spent much of 2020 and the pandemic revisiting one of her favorite recipes: rice and potato soup. In fact, the family-friendly dish inspired the theme of her forthcoming cookbook titled “Lidia’s a Pot, a Pan, and a Bowl: Simple Recipes for Perfect Meals,” which comes out this October. In an interview with Taste of Home, the Italian chef and restaurateur explained that the vegetable soup is both “economical and delicious,” making it the perfect backbone for a cookbook centered around easily achievable one-pot meals.
Fans of Bastianich know that she loves a dish that can be reinvented a million ways on a dime — literally and figuratively. While her rice and potato soup is made with Idaho potatoes, carrots, celery, tomato paste, long-grain rice, Grana Padano, and a collection of herbs, many of those ingredients can be swapped out to fit your desired taste — except, of course, for the potato, rice, and Grana Padano cheese. “None of that grated cheese works because it loses some of the flavor. Get a chunk,” Bastianich quipped.
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Fans of Bastianich know that she loves a dish that can be reinvented a million ways on a dime — literally and figuratively. While her rice and potato soup is made with Idaho potatoes, carrots, celery, tomato paste, long-grain rice, Grana Padano, and a collection of herbs, many of those ingredients can be swapped out to fit your desired taste — except, of course, for the potato, rice, and Grana Padano cheese. “None of that grated cheese works because it loses some of the flavor. Get a chunk,” Bastianich quipped.
