Instant Pot Chicken Gnocchi Soup
A big bowl of Instant Pot Chicken Gnocchi Soup is pure delicious comfort food. This soup has an amazing and flavorful creamy broth paired with veggies and delicious tender chicken. No pressure cooker? No problem! You’ll also find directions to make this soup on the stovetop.
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If you’ve been hoping that I would convert our popular stovetop Copycat Olive Garden Chicken and Gnocchi Soup into an Instant Pot version, you’re in luck!
Prepare yourself for the coziest bowl of soup that is like a hug for your stomach.
This comforting recipe, like our Instant Pot Matzo Ball Soup, Creamy White Bean Soup, and Instant Pot Chicken and Dumplings, is sure to become a family favorite.
If you are new to pressure cooking and the Instant Pot, check out this post on recipes for Instant Pot beginners.
WHAT IS GNOCCHI?
Gnocchi are tiny little dumplings made from potatoes, eggs, and flour. They have been pressed with the tines of a fork to hold sauces and your heart.
You’ll find them in the pasta aisle in the grocery store. They’re amazing and are also the star of my Crispy Oven-Fried Gnocchi and Veggies.
I use dried gnocchi in this recipe because it is affordable, shelf-stable, and tastes great. You can sub in frozen, fresh gnocchi, or even homemade. If using frozen, do not thaw before adding it to your chicken gnocchi soup.
Pro Tips/Recipe Notes
- Using precooked chicken (like from a leftover paleo roast chicken)? Add it to the soup after it has finished cooking.
- You can save a few minutes of prep time by melting butter in the microwave instead of melting it in the Instant Pot.
- If you want to double the soup, the cook time remains the same. Make sure the ingredients don’t go above the max fill line and allow for a full natural release.
- It is important to use a flavorful broth in this recipe! You can learn how to make chicken bone broth here or where to buy bone broth here.
- Make your meal prep even easier by learning how to freeze carrots, how to freeze celery, how to freeze garlic and how to freeze onions. Having them on hand in the freezer will cut 15+ minutes of prep time.
MORE DELICIOUS INSTANT POT SOUPS YOU’LL LOVE
- Instant Pot Zuppa Toscana
- Instant Pot Beef Barley Soup
- Paleo Chicken Pot Pie Soup
- Instant Pot Tortilla Soup With Rice
- Whole30 Beef Stew
- Easy Instant Pot Chicken Chili
- Instant Pot Lentil Soup
- Instant Pot Vegetable Noodle Soup
- Check out all my Instant Pot Soup Recipes
Instant Pot Chicken Gnocchi Soup
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp butter
- 3.5 cups carrots {peeled, chopped}
- 2.5 cups celery {chopped}
- 1 cup onion {diced}
- 4 cloves garlic {minced}
- 3.5 cups chicken broth
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp tarragon {dried}
- 1 tsp parsley {dried}
- 1 tsp thyme {dried}
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 16 oz chicken breast {raw, cut into bite-sized pieces}
- 16 oz gnocchi {shelf-stable}
- 1 cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Melt butter with the Instant Pot on saute.
- Add the carrots, celery, onion, and garlic. Stir to coat, and turn the Instant Pot to off.
- Add olive oil, broth, chicken, tarragon, parsley, thyme, smoked paprika, and gnocchi. Stir.
- Lock the lid into place and set the steam release handle (valve on top) to “Sealing”. Press Manual>High Pressure>5 minutes.
- When the Instant Pot has finished cooking, it will beep and switch to ”keep warm". Allow it to sit with the lid on for 15 minutes and then do a manual release with the nozzle set to venting.
- Add in heavy cream, stir. Salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
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Uh. This soup was REALLY good. I used chicken thighs and veggie broth because that’s what I had on hand, and subbed in NutPods creamer for the dairy since dairy and me very unfortunately had to pretty much break up (we see each other occasionally for a quickie but then it’s complicated and doesn’t end well but so good in the moment!). The results were fantastic! Thank you for a new soup to throw into the rotation.
Love the use of chicken thighs Andy! We use Nutpods a lot as well since my oldest has dairy issues. It’s a great sub for the heavy cream in soups.
So glad you enjoyed this one so much!
We don’t eat chicken so I added potatoes (and used vegetable broth) instead. This was so good!
So glad you liked it Sam! 🙂
THIS. SOUP. IS. AMAZING!!!
I made this for dinner last night after working a full 8 hour day. I appreciate how easy it was to put together. I am a soup fanatic and this is definitely a keeper and in my top favorites! My husband is not a soup freak like me, but even he loved this soup.
“I’m a soup fanatic” is music to my ears Karla. 🙂 I’m thrilled you loved this one as much as we do!