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Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup

Name: Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts (cooked and shredded); 1 Tbs olive oil; 4 Tbs butter; 1/4 cup all-purpose flour; 1 small onion (chopped); 2 garlic cloves (minced); 6 cups chicken broth; 2 cups milk; 1 cup carrots (shredded); 2 tsp parsley flakes; Salt and pepper for seasoning; 1 package (16 ounces mini potato gnocchi); 1 cup fresh spinach (chopped)

by Tornadough Alli June 23, 2015 Updated June 13, 2019 118 Comments

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Want a tasty copycat recipe that everyone will love? This Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup is easy, flavorful and completely addicting. Simple ingredients make this better than the original!

If you are an Olive Garden fan, raise your hand! We are huge pasta, soup and salad lovers in this house and Olive Garden is one of those that we have always enjoyed.

Now we don’t have an Olive Garden near us, well not within an hours drive so I took it upon myself to recreate one of their most beloved soups, Chicken Gnocchi Soup.

This is hands down one of our most made soups ever. We make it at least once a month, if not more often simply because everyone in the family loves it.

Gnocchi is one of our favorite things to cook with, you can check my One Pot Creamy Sausage Gnocchi and my Taco Gnocchi recipes if you are also a fan.

Gnocchi is also one of those staples that are easily adaptable and can be added to so many different things than just this Copycat Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup.

Some of our other favorite Olive Garden recipes include:

It’s super easy to make all your favorite restaurant recipes at home. We love all sorts of copycat recipes and we take it upon ourselves to try to recreate as much as possible.

INGREDIENTS YOU NEED:

Chicken breasts
Olive oli
Butter
Flour
Onion
Garlic
Chicken broth
Milk
Carrots
Parsley
Salt & pepper
Gnocchi
Spinach

I love this Chicken Gnocchi Soup because it’s pretty straight forward and super simple to whip up and the ingredients aren’t super weird where you cant find them anywhere.

I find that when I try to recreate recipes, sometimes it’s hard to locate some of the ingredients that they call for, so we like to adapt as much as possible and sometimes they turn out a little better than the original.

HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN GNOCCHI SOUP:

In large dutch oven or stock pot, melt butter and olive oil together.
Add your onions, carrots and garlic and cook until onions become translucent.
Whisk in your flour and let cook for a minute, slowly stir in your chicken broth and simmer until it starts to thicken up.
Meanwhile in pan cook your gnocchi according to package directions, drain and set aside.
Add your milk to your veggie and chicken broth mix and bring to a boil, stir in your seasonings.
Once at a boil reduce heat and add your gnocchi, spinach and chicken simmering until heated through and thickened.

This gnocchi soup recipe can literally be whipped up in less than 30 minutes which makes it the IDEAL weeknight dinner. It is easily able to be doubled with no trouble at all.

TIPS AND TRICKS:

To make a thicker soup mix together mix together 1 Tbs cornstarch and 1 Tbs cold water and stir until thickened.
We aren’t the biggest fans of celery, but you can add 1 cup chopped celery when you add your other vegetables.
We like to use mini gnocchi which we find at Walmart, but regular sized gnocchi is fine as well.
You don’t need to pre-boil your gnocchi, you can cook it in the liquid instead.
I do not recommend freezing this soup, thawing it will make it separate and become watery.

So if you want a perfect easy dinner recipe this Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup recipe is the way to go. Everyone raves about it (just check out the reviews) and pretty much the whole family loves it!

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