Olive Garden's Chicken Gnocchi Soup | Cook the Copycat

this is my all time favorite soup from Olive Garden, if you like it too keep watching!
Ingredients
4 tablespoons Butter
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 cup finely diced onion
1/2 cup finely diced celery
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 quart half-and-half
28 ounces chicken broth
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
1 cup carrots finely shredded
1 cup spinach leaves coarsely chopped
1 cup chicken breast cooked, and diced
16 ounces package ready-to-use gnocchi

[@frederickowens2376]

Just made this tonight (12/26/2022) and my daughter and I loving it. I use frozen spinach and I’m glad I heard you say drain the water off. Great advice. Thumbs up!!!😊😊

[@JimsKitschKitchen]

So fun, I made this a while back too- awesome!!!!!! Love your taste

[@maribelmuniz2123]

Omg...have to try

[@flippersnyder]

I'm going to try this recipe some time looks good.

[@ryanloder3689]

Thanks for posting this! It looks like you did an outstanding job:)

[@jessehernandez8177]

Why dont you cook the carrots as well? My carrots never cook all the way even for 4+ hrs in the crock pot. So im going to cook mine tonight and see if that's the issue..

[@michaelvasquez5608]

Awesome soup

[@sassysandra245]

Flour can’t cause salmonella, now if you have that confused with why you can’t eat raw cookie dough it’s not because of the flour it’s becuz it has eggs and eggs cause salmonella. Just an FYI

[@CooktheBook]

You are correct, but I had read that you can get e-coli from raw flour. I just posted the wrong info. Nice catch, thanks 😊 👍

[@beauty-rr2wp]

@@CooktheBook yh u can get ill from eating raw flour.

[@flippersnyder]

You can get many illnesses from raw flour (while rare since most flour is bleached) but the reference she used was cooking it out is to take the raw flour taste out of the dish. The bad stuff would cook out during the rest of the cook. Since you simmer this. But most everyone cooked the flour out at that phase is purely for taste and not safety. It's the same as making a cheese sauce or gravy. You cook the raw flavor out of the flour so it doesn't taste like cereal in the end product.

[@iloveunicorns123]

Would we be able to make this wo th out the gnochhi

[@Katz1950]

Looks like it would make about eight - 8 ounce servings?????

[@CooktheBook]

Sounds about right, I've never measured out servings. We always have a ton of it leftover when I make it.

[@jennyhendrickson8477]

Forgot the cheese! But looks delicious

[@23CrystalRose]

What were the two seasonings that you used? I heard one was thyme but not the other one.

[@CooktheBook]

So sorry I forgot to say! I'm kind of an airhead sometimes, the other spice was dried parsley.

[@23CrystalRose]

Thank you! If you could list the ingredients in the description box that would be great 😊

[@CooktheBook]

Done!

[@23CrystalRose]

You are awesome! Thank you!

[@CooktheBook]

If you try it let me know how it turned out!

[@ginamcclure463]

Where's the gnocchi?

[@CooktheBook]

It's added at the end

[@dennising2643]

For Pete's sake, get it together, you're all over the place.

[@bcntsportscards242]

False

[@87vikk]

I dont think this lady knows how to cook

[@CooktheBook]

Thanks for that...makes me feel GREAT! Hope you have a wonderful day