Sheet pan chicken dinners make it a breeze to get a well-rounded meal on the table without a lot of effort. Check out these 10 delicious sheet pan dinners for tons of different flavor ideas your family will love!
Sheet pan dinners are a life saver in my house.
They are easy to prep, they are hands off while they cook and then dinner is just ready and waiting on you. Way less stressful.
Why sheet pan dinners are awesome:
- Everything cooks at the same time and is ready at the same time.
- It's an all-in-one meal. You don't have 3 pans going all at once on the stove.
- Hands-off. Once it's prepped, you can often pop it in the oven and walk away for a bit. Grab some wine, read a book, do your thing.
- You can accommodate different dietary needs and preferences in the same meal. Skip the potatoes to go low-carb. Little Betty gets carrots, little Frank gets green beans. You get what I'm saying.
- Easy clean-up since everything cooks in one or two sheet pans. You can usually line your baking sheets with parchment paper as well, to make it really easy clean-up.
One thing I will warn you about. And this is something I include in all of my recipes, but just to call it as for you in case you start making your own. Or using recipes from elsewhere.
Pro tip: Use two sheet pans for sheet pan chicken dinners.
It really, really helps to keep your chicken separate from your roasting vegetables.
The chicken often will give off juices as it bakes, and those can make the veggies steam, not roast. So they end up sitting in water instead of getting browned and delicious.
So one sheet pan for the chicken, a separate one for the veggies, potatoes, etc. (Or you can use aluminum foil and crimp up the edges to make a separate area for the chicken. I do that too sometimes.)
And sometimes I even use 3 sheet pans - or two big ones and a smaller baking dish - if I've really got a ton of veggies or want to separate some more things.
Another tip: You can also almost always swap out the veggies in a sheet pan recipe to suit your tastes. If you don't like asparagus, use green beans. Or pick broccoli instead of zucchini.
Just be sure to adjust the cooking times, if needed.
Lastly, you know I don't mind a shortcut. If you don't feel like roasting potatoes, get some frozen potato wedges or fries or tater tots.
We're all about keeping it simple. You're still getting dinner on the table, after all.
OK, without further ado, let's check out these delicious recipes!
Sheet Pan Chicken Dinner Recipes
So many delicious recipes to choose from! And lots of different flavors and combinations that you can choose from to make it work for your family.
Here's to solving the dinner time dilemmas and making it a breeze to get dinner on your table.
Happy cooking!
XO,
Kathryn
P.S. You might also like sheet pan sausages and veggies to mix things up.
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