Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup

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.

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups milk
• 1 cup carrots shredded
• 2 tsp parsley flakes
• 1 small onion chopped
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 6 cups chicken broth
• Salt and pepper for seasoning
• 1 package 16 ounces mini potato gnocchi
• 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts cooked and shredded
• 1 Tbs olive oil
• 4 Tbs butter
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup fresh spinach chopped

INSTRUCTIONS:

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

Notes

• You can add celery to this recipe if desired, juts add about 1 cup chopped. If your soup is too thin for your liking add 1Tbs cornstarch mixed with 1Tbs cold water and stir into your soup until thickened.

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