Chicken & Gnocchi Soup

Now that the rainy, chilly fall weather seems to be sticking it is officially soup season in this house!

This soup is one of my favourites and my usually soup indifferent husband actually gets excited when this hits the stove.

Ingredients:

1 whole rotisserie chicken, deboned
2 yellow onions (~2 cups)
Half a bulb of garlic, this is usually 3 or 4 cloves for me
6 carrots (~2 cups)
8 celery stalks (~2-3 cups)
~2-4 tablespoons of olive oil (or butter)
5 to 6 cups of stock (I used water and one cube of mushroom bullion)
1 package of gnocchi
Pecorino or parm to your taste, I used about 1 cup of grated pecorino
1 cup of a milk/ cream of your choosing, I used 5% as that is what I had bought for my coffees this week anyways!
~half of a large package of spinach (mine was a 312g package)

Equipment

A pot or Dutch oven
Slapchop or knife and cutting board
Spoon for stirring
Ladle for serving

I started by slapchopping my veggies (celery, carrots, onions, garlic) into a fine chop. This can also be done by chopping with a knife and cutting board, but my mum got me a slapchop and it is so much faster lol

2. Then I sautéd the chopped veg with the olive oil over medium-low heat while I deboned the rotisserie chicken. If you deboned the chicken prior to starting, you would let this cook for about 10 minutes stirring occasionally.

3. I just pulled the chicken, you can chop it if you would like but it isn’t necessary in my house!

3.5 Don’t forget to give any furry friends the chicken tax! I am sure they will be the first to remind you about the consequences of tax evasion.

4. I then added in my water and bullion cube and brought it to a boil.

5. Next I rinsed the gnocchi in a sieve to get off any of the residual starch before adding it to the boiling broth. I find that if I skip this step the soup gets too thick. Allow the gnocchi to boil for about 3 minutes

6. Once the gnocchi is cooked I turned off the heat and added the cheese and cream, stirring it through.

7. Lastly, I chopped the spinach and stirred it into the broth to wilt.

8. Grab a bowl and dish up! You can add any salt and pepper to taste but between the chicken and the cheese I find that the soup is already adequately seasoned!

This reheats really well for lunches/ dinner throughout the week!