This Slow Cooker Chicken and Kale Gnocchi Soup tastes just like Olive Garden. This recipe makes a big batch for a crowd.
My other favorite soups on my blog are Baked Potato, Hearty Italian Beef, and Chicken Tortilla. I make at least one soup a week in my slow cooker.
This Chicken and Kale Gnocchi Soup is out of this world good. This recipe is inspired by Olive Garden’s Chicken Gnocchi Soup. I added kale because I had some on hand, the kale added great flavor to the soup. Soups in the slow cooker are a must in the winter. Since I work all day, I love to come home to a bowl of comforting soup.
This recipe has a few more steps than most of my other recipes. The extra steps are sautéing the veggies and boiling the gnocchi and kale separate on the stove-top, these steps are worth the time and effort to create a restaurant-style soup.
Try one of these other Olive Garden Inspired Recipes:
- Slow Cooker Olive Garden Chicken
- Slow Cooker Zuppa Tuscana
- Slow Cooker Creamy Italian Chicken Spaghetti
I hope you enjoy my recipe for Chicken and Kale Gnocchi Soup. Enjoy!
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Slow Cooker Chicken and Kale Gnocchi Soup
Equipment Needed:
- Slow Cooker- 6 quart or larger
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 7 cups chicken broth
- 4 Tbsp. butter
- 4 Tbsp. flour
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 1 cup diced carrots
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1 tsp. dried basil
- 1 tsp. dried oregano
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 16 oz. package gnocchi (found on the pasta aisle, refrigerated section, or freezer section)
- 2 cups chopped kale
- 1 1/2 cups half and half
Instructions:
- Add the chicken to a 6-quart slow cooker, set aside.
- In a medium sized skillet set over medium-high heat on the stove-top, melt the butter. Add the onion, celery, carrots, garlic, basil, oregano, salt and pepper. Cook for 3-5 minutes until they are slightly softened. Add the flour and cook for 30 more seconds, add a few cups of the chicken broth and stir until the flour dissolves.
- Add everything from the skillet to the slow cooker with the chicken, add the remaining chicken broth, stir. Cover and cook on LOW for 8 hours, without opening the lid during the cooking time. After the cooking time is up, cook the gnocchi as directed on the package in boiling water on the stove-top, add the kale to this pot and cook at the same time as the gnocchi, the kale will take about 4 minutes to cook. Drain the gnocchi and kale, add to the slow cooker.
- Shred the chicken with 2 forks.
- Add the half and half.
- Stir.
- Serve and enjoy!
I don’t know what happened, but I seemed to have a huge amount of brothers vs ingredients.
With that being said, it was DELICIOUS.
We added Italian cheeses. It really brought it together.
The other ingredients were devoured, so I will be using the broth tomorrow and adding more veggies, sausage, and potatoes for a Zuppa Tiscana this time.