A healthy, delicious, and warming vegetable soup with gnocchi.
Chop onion and basil leaves and mince garlic. Drain and rinse the chickpeas.
Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium high heat. Add the chopped onion and saute until translucent. Add garlic and basil and continue sauteing for another minute.
Add chickpeas, red pepper flakes, vegetable broth, diced fire roasted tomatoes plus juices, salt, and ground pepper to taste. When mixture starts boiling, add the green beans and reduce heat and simmer for about 15 minutes.
Add the gnocchi and cook until tender. Turn heat off and stir in spinach until they are wilted.
Ladle into bowls and serve with Parmesan cheese and more basil.