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Home / Recipes / Dinner / Slow Cooker / Crockpot Chicken Gnocchi Soup

Crockpot Chicken Gnocchi Soup

8 hrs 15 mins
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5 from 31 votes
Jump to Recipe 01/20/20 | Updated: 09/16/20 | by Nora
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Ready In: 8 hrs 15 mins
I always make this easy chicken gnocchi soup when we have a cold and busy day ahead of us – it cooks all day in the slow cooker, then you'll finish it with a few ingredients just before dinnertime rolls around. This is just as good as going out to Olive Garden for dinner (but if you ask my kids, they'll tell you this homemade one is even better!).
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Recommended Equipment:

  • Slow Cooker

Ingredients

  • ½ medium yellow onion (diced)
  • 2-3 medium carrots (shredded)
  • 2-3 sticks celery (sliced)
  • 1 pound boneless (skinless chicken breasts)
  • salt & pepper (to taste)
  • ½ teaspoon dried garlic powder
  • ½ teaspoon dried thyme
  • ½ teaspoon dried rosemary
  • 1 clove garlic (minced)
  • 4 cups low-sodium chicken broth
  • 1 cup(12-oz) can evaporated milk
  • 1-2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1 17.5-oz package gnocchi
  • 2-4 cups baby spinach
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 8 hrs
Ready In: 8 hrs 15 mins

Instructions

  • Slow cook: Place onion, carrots and celery at the bottom of the crock. Season chicken on both sides with salt and pepper and sit on top of vegetables. Combine broth, garlic powder, thyme, rosemary and minced garlic in measuring jug, then pour over chicken and vegetables in crock. Cook on HIGH for 4-5 hours, or on LOW for 7-8 hours.
  • Shred chicken: Open lid of slow cooker and remove chicken to a wooden board, then shred chicken with two forks. Whisk cornstarch into evaporated milk, then stir into soup together with gnocchi and shredded chicken. Cover and cook for another 45 minutes on HIGH.
  • Finish soup: Stir spinach into soup until wilted. Check for seasoning and serve immediately.

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    Ingredient Notes:

    Chicken: You can also make this with boneless, skinless chicken thighs for a more economical dinner. The cooking time stays the same.
    Gnocchi: I you can’t find any gnocchi, it’s just as good with cheese tortellini or with wide egg noodles!
    Spinach: Feel free to leave out the spinach if your family isn’t a fan of leaves in their dinner (my kids were very opposed a couple of years ago, but now that I’ve convinced them it’s what Rebecca Rabbit eats, they find it fun, ha!).
    Evaporated milk: You can also use cream or half-and-half in place of the evaporated milk.
     

    Cooking Tips:

    Make sure the chicken sits on top of the vegetables so it doesn’t burn to the bottom of the crock. Some of the veggies will float up when you pour the broth on top, that doesn’t matter! As long as you place the vegetables in the crock first, then the chicken second and finally the broth.
    If you like a very thick soup, try cooking it without the lid for the final 45 minutes. Just make sure no pets or kids can get to it!
     

    Side Dishes:

    This is a nice and hearty soup all by itself, but if you want to serve something on the side, we LOVE my Garlic Parmesan Mini Monkey Breads with this recipe. You can also use canned biscuits in place of the homemade dough the recipe asks for. Plain biscuits are also delicious, and so is a hearty No Knead Bread!

    Nutrition

    Calories: 345kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 27g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 65mg | Sodium: 509mg | Potassium: 756mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 4553IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 199mg | Iron: 4mg

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    Cuisine: American, Mediterranean
    Course: Main Course
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    Step by Step Photos:

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    1: Place chicken on top of vegetables in the crock. 2: Pour seasoned chicken broth over the ingredients in the crock and cook on HIGH for 4h or on LOW for 8h. 3: Shred chicken and add back to the soup along with evaporated milk & cornstarch. 4: Add gnocchi to soup, stir and cook on HIGH for another 45 minutes. 5: Stir baby spinach into soup until wilted.
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    1. Sharon VC says

      November 04, 2022 at 10:17 pm

      I do not have a crockpot. Would I have to make any adjustments if I cooked it on the stove?

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      • Nora says

        November 15, 2022 at 12:54 pm

        Sharon, if you’re cooking it in a pot on the stove, I would make the following adjustments:

        – Cook onions, carrots and celery in a tablespoon of oil and a pat of butter over medium heat, for 5-10 minutes until starting to soften.
        – Then stir in seasoning, and finally the broth, scraping any browned bits off the bottom of the pot.
        – Bring to a boil, then add the chicken breast and simmer on medium to medium-high heat until the chicken is cooked, about 15 minutes (can be shorter or longer depending on the size and thickness of the chicken)
        – Once cooked through, shred the chicken as directed in the recipe.
        – Combine the cornstarch and evaporated milk, whisk it into the soup until fully combined. Add the chicken and the gnocchi, stir, then simmer until the gnocchi are done.
        – Stir in the spinach, check for seasoning and serve.

        Hope this helps!

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    2. Hannah says

      January 04, 2022 at 2:26 am

      Hey! Excited to make this. Quick question, I couldn’t find fresh spinach unfortunately at our local grocery, but they did have frozen spinach, will this work?

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      • Nora says

        January 05, 2022 at 8:13 pm

        Hannah, frozen leaf spinach will be fine. Just don’t use frozen chopped spinach, I did that once and it turned the soup into a huge mess. Hope this helps 🙂

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    3. Mariam says

      January 23, 2020 at 7:37 pm

      5 stars
      my 14 year old daughter saw your YouTube video and asked if we could make this, and it turned out so well! hoping she’ll watch more cooking videos instead of all those beauty tutorials in the future, haha. thank u!

      Reply
      • Nora Rusev says

        January 23, 2020 at 7:49 pm

        Haha, I hope so too, Mariam! Thank you for coming back to leave a review, I appreciate it.

        Reply

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