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:
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In large dutch oven or stock pot, melt butter and olive oil together.
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Add your onions, carrots and garlic and cook until onions become translucent.
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Whisk in your flour and let cook for a minute, slowly stir in your chicken broth and simmer until it starts to thicken up.
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Meanwhile in pan cook your gnocchi according to package directions, drain and set aside.
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Add your milk to your veggie and chicken broth mix and bring to a boil, stir in your seasonings.
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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!
If you like this recipe you might also like:
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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Nutrition
Tornadough Alli is not a nutritionist or dietitian, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and nutritional value is important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and values can vary depending on which brands were used.
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Lynn
I live in the Southest… we have Olive Garden here and I love this soup! However, I am having trouble finding potato gnocchi in grocery stores. I know I don’t want to try and make my own…where do you find yours?
Tornadough Alli
Hi Lynn, sorry it took me a bit to respond! I find my gnocchi at Walmart in the pasta aisle!
Crystal
I live in the Southeast also. Wal-Mart now carries gnocchi in a box in the pasta isle. I use it all the time. I just omit the seasoning pack it has in it. Also, while shopping at The Dollar Tree the other day, I noticed they also had some plain potato gnocchi in the food isle. I haven’t tried it yet. Hope this helps.
Sue b
Have you ever tried without boiling your gnocchi first. Seems like it would cook in the broth
Jo
Yes. I don’t boil separately. Last ingredient. Done in two minutes or less.
Heather
What is the prep/total time in making it?
Tornadough Alli
Hi Heather, it takes about 30-45 mins total. You can cut down the time by using a rotisserie chicken as well and just shredding that up saving time on cooking the chicken yourself.
Aley
Maybe I missed it but how many servings does the recipe make?
Tornadough Alli
This makes about 4-6 servings.
Brittney
Can you use a bag of frozen spinach instead?? If so do you just add and cook until tender?
Tornadough Alli
Hi Brittney, you sure can use a frozen bag of spinach. I’ve done it many times in a pinch!
Deanna
This was soooooo delish! It turned out perfect my first try.
Erica
Thank you for this recipe! Chicken Gnocchi soup from Olive Garden is one of my absolute favorite soups and I’ve been CRAVING it! I made it tonight and it came out perfectly. I served it with a warm, delicious crusty bread. I can’t wait for lunch tomorrow now! 🙂
Amanda Clark
Hi there! Greetings from central California. Thank you for this wonderful recipe. This soup is my go to when we go to Olive Garden. I really don’t like anything besides their soup, salad, and breadsticks, haha. I doubled the recipe and it is perfect for my family of 6. They gobbled it up!
Thanks again 🙂
Tornadough Alli
I’m so happy you all liked my version!! It’s my fave soup from there too and I can never get enough!
Emily
Okay thank you!
Emily
Hi I had a question about the gnocchi 🙂 I think something went wrong (or maybe it was just the brand I bought). It tastes noticeably like baking soda (or something similarly sour)! We ended up having to pick the gnocchi out of our servings. Is there something I might have done wrong? If so is there a way to salvage it?
Tornadough Alli
Hi Emily, that is really odd. I’ve never had that happen or ever tasted sour. It could be the brand of gnocchi you purchased. That would be the only thing I can think of, maybe they coated their gnocchi in baking soda or something when they rolled it. You could possibly remove the gnocchi from the soup with a slotted spoon and rinse, but other than that I’m not exactly sure how to salvage them. I’d it’s edible without it then maybe just take it out? I usually get my gnocchi from Walmart.
Bethany
I have this cooking right now. It looks and smells great!
Alicia
The last paragraph is confusing. It repeats the previous 3 but I’m not sure whether I’m adding the milk or the chicken broth? Or is this another pan?
Tornadough Alli
Hi Alicia, no something went wrong with my recipe app and I’m trying to get it edited for you.
Meg sproul
This soup sounds so good, but did I miss. Something – is the chicken cooked?
Tornadough Alli
It is! Sorry about the confusion, I’ll add cooked in my ingredients instead of just shredded! Thanks for pointing that out.
Sue
The ingredients say to add milk but the directions say heavy cream.
Tornadough Alli
Thanks for pointing that out Sue. I recently updated my recipe and it is milk, I have since changed that in the directions.
DOLLIE
WOW, I am so excited to see and copy this recipe. It is my husband’s favorite at Olive Garden. I will definitely make this. Thank you sooooo much.
Miz Helen
I love this soup, it is a great recipe. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and have a great day!
Come Back Soon,
Miz Helen
Tornadough Alli
Thank you!
Kristi
Yummy! I love Olive Garden and I love good soup recipes! It’s win-win! 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing at #HomeMattersParty. Hope you come back and share again.
Tornadough Alli
Thanks for stopping by! I will for sure be stopping back 🙂
Joor
We don’t have an Olive Garden here but this recipe looks delicious! I’ll have to give it a go!
Joanna @ Everyday Made Fresh
Delicious! I am all about some copy cat Olive Garden recipes! 🙂 I will be making this as soon as the weather cools off a bit. The heat index right now, at 9am is 103. 🙁 Too hot for this! Happy anniversary!!
Tornadough Alli
Thank you for stopping by! Wow that’s too hot for me, we are still in the upper 70’s lower 80’s so I can stand my oven still! Thank you for the anniversary wish!
Quinn Caudill
I love gnocchi.(Pronounced 10 different ways). My favorite is made with ricotta cheese. Your recipe looks great. Have a great week. :))
Tornadough Alli
Thanks for commenting! This is an awesome soup. Ricotta sounds yummy with it!