Gnocchi are basically a type of potato dumpling made from flour, potatoes and eggs (although as Allrecipes explains, you'll sometimes see things like ricotta or spinach added). There's a bit of debate surrounding whether potato gnocchi are technically a pasta, since they're generally cooked and treated like a pasta ... or whether they're a small dumpling. Regardless, you can generally find gnocchi in bags in the freezer section, in boxes in the dried pasta aisle, and sometimes even in the refrigerated, fresh section of your grocery store (and you can, of course, even make your own gnocchi). For this copycat Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup, I liked the performance of frozen, store-bought varieties – with the benefit that you don't even have to thaw your gnocchi before tossing it in the soup pot!