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!
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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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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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Vicki Starcher
Looking forward to trying this recipe. My daughter made this dish a while back and it was delicious. Can not wait to try it on my own
Alex Holt
I’m so excited to make this recipe! It looks so good! I do have a question: do you know how long it will keep in the refrigerator? I was wondering if I could make it early for the event.
Jessie
I made this for the second time tonight! My family looooves it. The broth is so flavorful! I baked the chicken, which provided the broth I needed. This recipe is definitely a keeper! 😁
Tornadough Alli
Woohoo! Loving this! So happy you loved this, thank you for taking the time to rate and comment, its greatly appreciated.
Candice
This recipe is delicious! My family loves it and I make it at least twice a month. Thank you!
Jesica M
How do you cook the chicken?
Tornadough Alli
You can cook it anyway you want it, we usually boil ours and then shred it. You can buy rotisserie chicken and use that, you can pan fry it and shred it or even bake it and shred it. So pretty much as long as you have cooked chicken you should be good 🙂
Kim
Just made this and had a cup to try. Love it!!! Next time I think I will decrease the broth to 4-5 cups and use kale. It was just what I needed on this very chilly day in Texas.
Anon
This soup is amazing and I really love that it doesn’t use heavy cream or half and half! I add a cup of celery to the veggie mix and usually end up doubling the flour to make it extra thick. Everyone I’ve made this for says it’s delicious and they always want the recipe! Thank you!
Tornadough Alli
Thats so great to hear! And I love that you are able to doctor it up to your liking too!
Rebecca
Have you done this in a slow cooker? I’m planning on making it tomorrow, I am SO excited. I’m going to make some copycat breadsticks too. I love Pinterest. Can’t wait to try!
Tornadough Alli
I haven’t but other people have and they said it worked out great.
Staci Shelton
I made it and its amazing. First time using my dutch oven
Tornadough Alli
Yay!! It’s our favorite! And we love our Dutch oven so much. One of my favorite pans ever.
Laura
I just made this for dinner and it was soooo yummy but I had a problem with the butter sitting on top of the soup. Any suggestions?
Tornadough Alli
That will usually happen with soups like this unfortunately, you could substitute the butter for oil and just use oil instead that might help!
Jillienne
I made this today and OMG!!!! So good!!! My family ate it up!!! Great for a rainy day!!!
Kolbie Clites
This is a solid recipe! All the components are there and the proportions are good, with room to adjust to taste. I would recommend this recipe for sure.
beth
Thank you, Thank you, it was a total hit with my boys. Made a pot last night and it was gone.
Tornadough Alli
Thats always good to hear. My boys adore this and we cant stop making it, one of our favorites!
Kaccey
Sooo delicious! Thank you for sharing this recipe!!!! I made a bowl and my boyfriend and I were in love!! The prep time did take me about an hour though 🙁
Ally
Making this soup tonight!! My husband and I are so excited!! He just told me he hopes it’s not better than olive gardens because that’s the only reason he goes to Olive Garden!! Thank you for sharing this recipe!!
Gail A. Ouimet
Better than the actural at the resturant. Love this and prepare it often using a rotissarie chicken from the market. Sooooo yummy.
Kim S.
Love this soup. I used 1/2 cup of flour and 1 cup milk and 1 cup heavy cream. The soup was nice and creamy.
Tornadough Alli
So happy you made it work for you! We adore this soup and now that you commented on it I’m super craving it again!
Linda Reynolds
Anyone ever tried this gluten free?
Joy
Where do you buy your gnocchi and is it frozen? Thanks
Tornadough Alli
I buy mine in the pasta section at Walmart and its not frozen 🙂
Scott
This might be an add question, but no where did I see of how long to cook the chicken before adding it to the stock mix…
Tornadough Alli
I didn’t put the actual process of cooking the chicken in the recipe, but to cook chicken we usually boil ours for about 20 minutes and then shred it 🙂