Restaurant-Style Chicken and Gnocchi Soup

Restaurant-Style Chicken and Gnocchi Soup

from allrecipes.com
60 min
8 servings
429 kcal / serving

Fans of the popular Italian restaurant chain will savor this easy copycat chicken soup with gnocchi, spinach, and creamy half-and-half.

Ingredients

  • 4 tablespoonsbutter
  • 4 tablespoonsolive oil
  • 1onion, finely chopped
  • ½ cupcelery, chopped
  • 2 clovesgarlic, finely chopped
  • ¼ cupall-purpose flour
  • 1carton chicken broth, or to taste, divided
  • 1package gnocchi
  • 2skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cubed
  • 1package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
  • 1 cupshredded carrots
  • ½ teaspoondried parsley flakes
  • ½ teaspoondried thyme
  • 1 quarthalf-and-half
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste

Directions

  1. 1

    Heat butter and olive oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Saute onion, celery, and garlic until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Whisk in flour and stir until the mixture becomes thick and light golden brown, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat.

  2. 2

    Bring 2 cups chicken broth to a boil in a pot. Cook gnocchi in the boiling broth until they float to the top, 2 to 4 minutes. Transfer gnocchi to a plate and reserve the broth in the pot. Place chicken in the broth and return it to a boil. Cook until chicken is no longer pink inside, about 7 minutes. Transfer chicken to a plate.

  3. 3

    Stir spinach, carrots, parsley, and thyme into the saucepan with the flour mixture and place over medium heat. Stir in half-and-half and bring to a boil. Cook until starting to thicken, about 3 minutes. Add 2 cups chicken broth. Bring back to a boil and simmer until soup is thick and smooth, 10 to 15 minutes.

  4. 4

    Stir gnocchi and chicken into the soup and season with salt and pepper.