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The Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi is known for being hearty. Filled with potato gnocchi, this is a rich soup that can be made into a meal. This warm bowl of goodness features roasted chicken, potato gnocchi, carrots, celery, and spinach. Soup warms the soul, and this is no exception. When you put out these bowls, they are going to come back empty.
This is an easy to prepare recipe, but it is going to taste like you spent hours at the stove making your family a delightful chicken and potato gnocchi soup. You can find the gnocchi in a couple of different places in your supermarket; my local stores sells shelf stable potato gnocchi in the dry pasta section. In higher end grocery stores, I have seen this sold in the fresh sections where you would pick up a prepared meal. Either type of gnocchi will work well. Your family will really love this. Have a hard time finding gnocchi? Make your own homemade potato gnocchi.
You can make Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi soup just like the Olive Garden does. Just a few ingredients and you can enjoy this famous soup at home.
Saute the onion, celery, and garlic in the butter and olive oil over medium heat until the onion becomes translucent. Add the flour and make a roux. Let the butter and flour mixture cook for about a minute before adding 1 quart of half and half. Cook gnocchi according to package directions. Into the roux, add in the carrots and chicken. Once the mixture becomes thick, add the chicken broth. Once the mixture thickens again, add the cooked gnocchi, spinach, and seasoning; simmer until soup is heated through. Before serving season to taste by adding additional salt.
Print RecipeComments about this recipe: You can add more chicken if you like. While you could use leftover cooked chicken breasts, I really think using the rotisserie chicken that are found in many grocery stores is the best way to get the optimal flavor of this soup. If you want to make the soup lower in calories, you can use milk instead of half and half. Half and Half does taste better though, and it also reheats better than milk does.
Now that I have shared one of my favorite dishes from a restaurant when I go out to eat, what is your favorite soup to eat when you go out?
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Today while shopping I picked up some gnocchi, When I brought it home and my 4 year old daughter spotted it she got so excited. She begged me to make her favorite “Yucky” as she calls “Gnocci” soup that Olive Garden makes. I have never made the soup before so off to Google I went. When I found this recipe I was very excited about how easy it seemed, And it was! This was a hit in my home. . Only thing I changed was the chicken. I used a store bought already cooked rotisserie chicken. Thank you so much! Because of this recipe my 4 year old has told us that tomorrow when she goes to school she is going to tell all of her friends how her mommy makes the BEST “Yucky” soup
Stephanie, This is brilliant! Thank you. Professional, amazing tasting and beautiful. I want to get your book now:)
Thank you Jessica. This recipe is in my upcoming book that will be released in June. Thank you for your compliments.
Ok, tried this recipe tonight! Not. Impressed! This would have been much better if it didn’t have the thyme or the nutmeg or both! It took away from the soup with those spices over powering it. this is going pinch by pinch of the recipe . Second it makes a lot so using the mini gnocchi you should due the large gnocchi or two packs of the minis. Also I think it should of had black pepper in it. Mine did (bowl) and it did taste better with it, and from the people who has made this,,, have you had the problem with the soup a bit greenish? Know it comes from the spinach but is there anyway to get that not to happen? The soup was good and all my family eat it with no complaints,they were all saying how good it was…… I am the one who judged itI love the OG and I will make this again, just with my adjustments with it! Any suggestions or comments welcomes, email is [email protected]
Sounds like you had a lot of concerns about this recipe. I am not sure how to fully address this recipe to your personal taste. I feel the soup has both spices, and I am only putting in minimal amounts. You are free to adjust, if you want to adjust one, I would remove the time since you do not like the additions of both spices.
I love that you added black pepper in your own bowl. It is wonderful being able to address your own personal level of seasonings.
It sounds like your spinach leached some of its water to your own soup. To eliminate this, I would suggest the next time you make your soup you cook it without adding the spinach, and then only add the spinach a moment or two before you serve your soup.
This is a keeper. If you like soup and you like the OG gnocchi soup, you will love this recipe. I did cut the half and half with fat free milk and it sill came out creamy. Just a note I cut the recipe in half, I was afraid it would be a lot of soup. The recipe cut in half was plenty for a family of four.
I like how you were able to cut some calories out of this recipe.
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omg this was a good soup
Pickle boy brought me here
I don’t even know where to start. I made my own broth and gnocchi. I used boneless skinless thigh meat from the store. But other than that I followed the recipe to a T (which is almost unthinkable for me). I almost left the nutmeg out until I was reading through some of the comments. I added all my seasonings, except nutmeg and tasted it. It was ok, but after I added the nutmeg it truly had the depth necessary to be able to compare it to OG. I also made mine a double batch (currently 32 weeks pregnant and this is all I have really craved my entire pregnancy, thank goodness you had this recipe). My picky eating children even said that it was the best meal I have ever made for them. I cannot thank you enough for this recipe and I will have to buy your book! THANK YOU!!!
Well thanks for the lovely compliment. This recipe will be in my upcoming book, not the one that I released in 2010. I am happy that you had good luck with the recipe. It sounds like you went to a lot of work making your own broth and gnocchi. I bet you can hardly wait to be a mom!
This soup was absolutely amazing! Thanks so much for this awesome recipe. If you think this recipe is bland you done something wrong
I learned a lot with this recipe. Left unsupervised, chicken will catch on fire. Parakeets do not like smoke detector alarms. Dogs do not like screaming parakeets. Attic fans to clear smoke in Michigan are COLD in January. On the plus side, snowy decks make good places to throw flaming pans. Dogs do like charred chicken. Frozen chicken strips shred nicely. Gnocchi andbutter make everything better. Even with all that, the soup was good! Thanks for the recipe.
Amazing! I substituted unsweetened original almond milk for the half and half due to dairy allergies and cut the butter in half with more olive oil. Used corn starch for flour for a gluten free soup. It was sooooo good and my gf/dairy free husband loved it. Even made gf gnocchi. He never had this soup and it is a favorite of mine. So happy to be able to share this with him. Thank-you.
all I can say is YUMMMEEE!!!!! oH MY GOSH.. I made it and it was great.. I read everyone’s suggestions and used all of the ingredients in the recipe.. it really doesn’t take that long to cook once you have all of your ingredients and veggies ready to go..
Just made this recipe and its amazing!!
I LOVE Olive Garden’s Ckn Gnocchi soup! It’s fabulous! But I needed it to be vegetarian this time. So, I used this recipe and increased the veggies by about half, removed the half and half, used cornstarch to thicken (2) 32oz boxes of veggie stock, then added the gnocchi and carrots. Walmart has the mini gnocchi and it was perfect! I did increase the salt to 1 tsp. and after adding all seasonings, I found the first taste to be missing depth. So, I added 1 tsp of pepper and the small amt of nutmeg. I’m glad you added nutmeg to the ingredients b/c it made all the difference along with the pepper. This was completely dairy free, unless there was dairy somewhere in the gnocchi.
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Tried making this since I’m so in love with the Olive Garden version. At first, it turned out super bland and potatoe-y tasting. Not good at all. Followed directions, just left out carrots and chicken. I ended up adding a variety of different cheeses, more broth, tons of salt, and it tasted a little better. Still not good as Olive Garden’s, though!
Goodness, I am sorry you had a bad experience. If I understand correctly you left out a one of the main ingredients, the chicken, and you left out the carrots. I write recipes with specific ingredients because they are needed to help the flavor. I don’t know how you are going to interpret my recipe, so I can’t engineer my recipe around your adaptations. As you can see from the comments, many people have loved this recipe when prepared as written. I am sorry it didn’t work out well for you.
Excellent and easy to make! I also used the rotisserie chicken and added a touch more salt and nutmeg. I will definitely make this one again!
Thought I would add my two cents to this ongoing discussion. I left out the nutmeg, because I thought, “Ew…NUTMEG?”…so obviously, from the comments, I missed a richer flavor experience. I have never had this soup @ OG, so I didn’t have anything to compare it to. I would start sauteeing the celery first, then add onion after a few minutes, as I don’t care for crunchy celery. As for chicken, I used rotisserie, as suggested, and used both the light and dark meat. I used most of a package of full-size gnocchi, and I really liked having so much in the bowl. Rather than canned broth, I used a “box” (equal to a quart of broth), and just eyeballed the amounts. I kept adding and adding…and that soup was STILL crazy thick!! Next time I will add even more. I wasn’t sure about was the thyme. I tend to add more seasoning than a recipe calls for, so I probably added a full teaspoon of thyme…TOO much. I’m not sure about that flavor….seems to me that something else would work better, but I can’t put my finger on exactly what. All in all, a DELICIOUS recipe worthy of repeating! Thank you!!!
The recipe is fabulous! I used heavy whipping cream instead of half and half and added