I love the Olive Garden! I tried their Chicken and Gnocchi Soup and totally fell in love with it. So, I looked up a recipe for it and tried it and really like it. I didn't even think it would be possible but it really is pretty simple. And since I have been making this soup, I actually like it better than the Olive Garden's, it's awesome. And I actually learned what "gnocchi" is, they are like dumplings but with potato added to it. I changed some things up a bit to make it my own recipe but if you want the original I got it from go to this site:
chicken and gnocchi soup and then I got the gnocchi recipe from this site:
homemade gnocchi. I follow the recipe exactly for the gnocchi but I change up the soup recipe a little bit according to what we like. Here are a few tips that I found useful with this recipe:
1) Saute the onion, celery, garlic mix in the same saucepan you cook the soup in, that saves dishes
2) If you don't have all the ingredients, just use what you do have
3) It is easier to thin the soup then thicken it so don't add the full amount of broth all at once, just little by little until it's the consistency you like.
4) This recipe does take awhile to make because of all the chopping of veggies and making the gnocchi. So do as much as you can in small increments. You can make up all the gnocchi ahead of time and refrigerate the cooked gnocchi until you need it. I also freeze the leftover gnocchi dough and use it later. This recipe for gnocchi makes a LOT!
-Happy Cooking-
