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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Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup
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
Instructions
- 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.
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Robin
I made this at Christmas time to go with a lasagna dinner (totally different from our usual turkey dinner). Everyone absolutely loved this soup! I will definitely be making it again. Thanks for the recipe 😁
Lea
I made this using a package of Morningstar Farms Chicken Strips in place of the real deal. I used vegetable broth instead of fake chicken broth and this was the first time in 20 years that it felt like I was eating Campbell’s Chunky Chicken Noodle soup. It was truly amazing and I will be making this for years to come.
1 3/4 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp. pepper & 1 Tbs. cornstarch used along with other recipe ingredients.
Lea
I also used soymilk if anyone was wondering.
Pamela Downs
I have tried several Olive Garden knock off Gnocchi soup recipes, your is “our” favorite. Because I hate to dirty pans I cooked the chicken in my stock pot removed it to shred, then added the carrots, onion and garlic. When that was soft I added the flour, stirring it with the veggies until adding the, broth heating it until boiling, then I added the gnocchi, let it cook about 5 minutes and continued with your directions. Only one pan to washI
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Paige
This recipe turned out SO good! I added some garlic salt and onion powder to mine and I needed to use cornstarch for it to thicken near the end. My fiance loved it and said it was super similar to Olive Gardens. I did half a batch by just cutting all ingredients in half.
Eliana
Delicious!!
Jody Johnson
Delish! The whole family loved it!
We made a double batch, and I only had one package of store-bought gnocchi, so we made another batch from some leftover mashed potatoes. Also, we just threw the gnocchi into the broth with the chicken instead of cooking it separately.
Thanks for an awesome recipe! We will definitely be making that again. Soon and frequently!
Ella
This recipe is absolutely amazing. I love it so much and it tastes just like the kind you get at Olive Garden. I didn’t add the full amount of spinach, it would have been way too much for me personally. I used store bought gnocchi but homemade would have made it absolute perfection. Overall fantastic recipe
Rebecca
Just tried this recipe and it was fantastic. I couldn’t believe something that tasty came out of my kitchen. The only milk I had was heavy cream but it worked fine. Soup was nice and thick.
Margaret Brown
Thank you for answering my question I was about to ask…I was hoping it would be ok to use Heavy cream in it instead of Milk ….I think the HC will make it nice & thick 🙂
Jennifer
Another copycat recipe for this calls for half and half, not milk. Has anyone tried it?
Mackenzie
I also make mine with half or two-thirds whole milk and the rest cream cause it makes the soup a lot richer.
Kandice W.
The uncooked chicken will not contaminate the soup when it’s cooking?
Tornadough Alli
Per the directions/ingredients the chicken is cooked and shredded before being added to the soup.
Nikki A
Thanks for adding about the chicken. I didn’t see it anywhere in the recipe either. Can’t wait to try this!!
Sylvia posey
This was so easy to make and was great will make more for my family
Evelyn Sanders
Where do you find mini potato gnocchi??
Tornadough Alli
I find mine at Walmart, but you don’t have to use mini gnocchi, regular will work just fine.
Taneah James
I am so glad that with all that’s going on in the world today I can bring my favorite soup into my house… homemade! I followed the recipe exactly, however I used thighs instead of breast and it is a hit!!!! The prep work was a bit much but totally worth it!!!! Thank you Tina for sharing.
Kathy
Hi! Love the recipe! It tastes fantastic. I will say it took way more than 10 min. To prep and more than 20 min to make. But thanks for the great recipe!
Tornadough Alli
I suppose you’re right with the prep time, I’m going off of already pre made chicken, so that does add some time to the prep if you have to go through the hassle of cooking your chicken.
Melissa H
I *love* this recipe. I’ve come back to it so many times, and I’m happy the weather is cooling off so I can add it to my rotation again. I’ve served it to guests and to my family, and they all have enjoyed it, even my little kiddos. I’ve adapted it easily to make in the Instant Pot. Thanks so much!
Tornadough Alli
Yay! So happy that you love this recipe. We are addicted and can’t stop making it, it’s on our rotation all year long! I’ll have to make this in the instant pot and come out with a recipe for that! That would be amazing.
Laurie
Tried this tonight and everyone loved it. Melissa H. Would you mind sharing how you made this in the IP? I just bought one and the only thing I’ve mastered so far is IP mac & cheese so I’m still learning…
Laurie
Melissa H. Would you mind sharing how you did this in your IP? I just got one so I’m still learning how to adapt recipes to it.