Olive Garden Chicken and Gnocchi Soup

By Morganp9661

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 fing gnocchi in a couple of different places in your supermarket, my local stores sells shelf stable potato gnocchi where dry pasta is sold. In higher end grocery stores I have seen these in the fresh sections where you would pick up a prepared meat at.

Ingredients

• 1 cup chicken breasts, cooked and diced(you can use rotisserie chicken)
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 4 tablespoons flour
• 1 quart half and half
• 1 14 oz. can chicken broth
• 1/2 cup celery, finely diced
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 cup carrots, finely shredded
• 1 cup onion, finely diced
• 1 cup fresh spinach, coarsely chopped
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon parsley
• Freshly grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 pound potato gnocchi

Details

Servings 8

Preparation

Step 1

saute' the onion, celery, and garlic in the butter and olive oil over medium heat when 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 & half.

Cook gnocchi according to package directions.

Into the roux add in the carrots and chicken. Once the mixture becomes thick add in the chicken broth. Once the thickens again,add the cooked gnocchi, spinach and seasonings, simmer until soup is heated through.