Olive Gardens House Salad & Dressing

One of my favorite restaurants to eat at is Olive Garden. Although I don't get to eat there as often as I like, when I do I love just about everything they serve. My favorite dish to order is their Chicken Scampi and their house, and bread sticks. Last weekend while out of town we got to pop in for a quick lunch.

This time I ordered Chicken & Gnocchi Soup, salad and bread sticks. Zuppa Toscana is the soup I usually order, but the chicken and Gnocchi seems to be my new favorite. I love their salad so much that I was excited to see a copycat recipe online, and I couldn't wait to try it. I can honestly say that the copy cat salad was really close to the original. I did add more black olives than called for, because I just didn't think there was enough. 

The dressing was a bit different as it was a bit thinner, but still good. I did some searching to see if I could find a dressing that was similar to the real thing. I found one but I haven't tried it yet. I lined the it in the notes section on the recipe card at the end. In the end I loved the salad so more than likely this salad will be a regular in our house. Since posting this recipe there is now a bottled version of Olive Gardens house dressing, so that can be used instead of the dressing recipe. 

If you are looking for a good breadstick recipe, give this one a try.