Sheet pan roast chicken is perfect for busy nights when you need a quick meal and fast clean-up! Pair it with sweet potatoes and lemon for a delicious meal.
Jump to RecipeSome nights I enjoy making a complicated (read messy) meal. Other nights, I need something quick and easy (and with very few dishes to clean). On these evenings, I love trying out a few one-pan recipes such as Sheet Pan Roast Chicken with Sweet Potatoes.
I found a recipe for roast chicken and vegetables on the Tasty app. We decided it was a great one to try. The original recipe called for green beans with it. But the beans we got had already started to get moldy, so we threw those in the compost bin. I was secretly ok with that because I really don’t care for fresh green beans like this!
We have been using fresh lemons in a lot of our cooking lately. We were drawn to this recipe for the lemon along with the other advantages. And the sweet potatoes, you can’t go wrong with some yummy seasoned sweet potatoes!
The recipe couldn’t be more simple to make, and with all the seasonings it comes out delicious! Chicken is our favorite meat to cook because it’s so versatile. We all eat chicken any way it’s cooked. And with two boys who can be picky eaters sometimes, any meal I can make that feeds all four of us is a win for me.
Whenever I make a sheet pan recipe, I also make sure to line the pan with aluminum foil or a silicone mat. This makes the cleanup even easier.
Roast Chicken Step by Step
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes
- 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp fresh rosemary (chopped)
- 1 tbsp fresh thyme (chopped)
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
- 2 chicken breasts (boneless, skinless)
- ¼ tsp paprika
Preparation
Start by preparing the vegetables. Cut the sweet potato into chunks about one inch and slice the lemon. If you plan to use some lemon zest to garnish then it’s easier to zest the lemon before you slice it.
Add these to a bowl with the olive oil, rosemary, thyme, garlic, salt, and pepper. You can either use a spoon or spatula to stir up the vegetables and seasonings. Or cover the dish and shake it. The boys had fun trying to use the garlic press.
Cover the sheet pan with foil if desired (to make clean up super easy) and lay the vegetables and lemon on one side of the pan.
Add the chicken breast to the other side and season it with a bit of salt, pepper, and paprika, then flip it over and do the same on the other side. Top each chicken breast with a slice of lemon.
Put the entire pan in the oven and bake it at 375 for about 20-30 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and the sweet potatoes are softened. Serve your Sheet Pan Roast Chicken with Sweet Potatoes warm and garnish with a bit of lemon zest.
Recipe
Originally Published On: July 19, 2019
Sheet Pan Roast Chicken with Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes
- 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp fresh rosemary (chopped)
- 1 tbsp fresh thyme (chopped)
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
- 2 chicken breasts (boneless, skinless)
- ¼ tsp paprika
Recommended Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F
- Cut the sweet potato into chunks about one inch and slice the lemon
- In a medium bowl, mix the sweet potatoes, lemon slices, olive oil, rosemary, thyme, garlic, salt, and pepper
- Lay out the potatoes on one side of a foil-lined sheet pan
- Lay the chicken on the other side and season with salt, pepper, and paprika
- Bake for about 20-30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are soft
Notes
All nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutrition content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.
Very nice recipe the Sheet Pan Roast Chicken with Sweet Potatoes. I would definitely try it.
Thank you! It’s delicious and easy to make.
I am not a fan of green beans either. They are okay fresh from the garden but that’s about it. I love one pan recipes. Makes dinner so much better!
I have one recipe, Kansas City Steak Strips, that I make with green beans. That’s about the only time I like them!
I love roasted veggies, really gives a great flavor! I’ll have to try your recipe one of these evenings for dinner, sounds great!
Yes, it definitely helps! I am not a big fan of veggies to begin with, so they have to have a lot of flavor for me to eat them.
This is a guaranteed killer combination! I love the herbs on the chicken and roasted sweet potatoes are one of my favorite sides! Do you have any leftover? 🙂 I can’t wait to try this!
My boys ate the chicken but not the sweet potatoes, so we ended up with leftover potatoes but no chicken. My husband ate them as a side with lunch the following day!
To have a dinner this beautiful in less than an hour from prep to table is awesome! I can imagine that the rosemary and thyme would taste great with the Sweet potatoes.
Unless I have a meal I really want to make that I know ahead of time is going to be an ordeal, my goal is always to have a meal that takes an hour or less.
I love sweet potatoes and adding lemon zest take them to the next level. Chicken and sweet potatoes make the best meal, will try that recipe this week.
I just recently started putting lemon zest on more foods and I don’t know why it took me so long to figure that out!
One pan recipes are my favorite! And chicken is always a win in this house! Im going to write this recipe down and try it soon!
Same here! Chicken is one of the few my entire family agrees on.
The thyme and rosemary seasoning sound divine. It seeems quite easy and looks like it turned out great too. I’m going to give this a try for dinner next week! 🙂
It was a perfect flavor combo, and yes, so easy to make a quick and delicious meal.
I am going to try this out for dinner this week! It looks yummy and easy to make, my two favourites!
I hope you enjoy it! Quick and easy are great for us on busy nights as well!
This dish looks so tasty. I need to make it for my family because it is low fat and healthy.
It’s so yummy! We will be making it again, especially with the added benefits of being so good for us!
I love roasted sweet potatoes and they are perfectly paired with chicken. This recipe sounds so yummy. I love adding a squeeze of lemon to chicken too. Your son will certainly know his way around the kitchen as an adult.
I’m hoping they pick up on some of this as they get older! Eating is something we have to obviously do our entire lives, so it will always be necessary to know how to cook for themselves.
Thai is so mouth watering and the best part is so easy to cook. I love sweet potatoes and fries are my favorite.
I’ve never had sweet potato fries before! I’m just starting to have a taste for sweet potato, I’ll have to try those next.
This would be a great and easy dinner. I need to try this week!
April
If you do, let me know how it goes! We loved this recipe and will be making it again soon.
This sounds like a fantastic dinner. I’m always looking for new ways to cook chicken. Lemon chicken is one of my faves!
We just recently started putting lemon on a lot more of our foods, it brings out so much flavor!
Your kids look enjoying cook the Roast Chicken with Sweet Potatoes and this recipe looks yummy perfect for dinner serving yummm!!
My boys love helping out in the kitchen. And my oldest is all about that chore money right now and they get paid to help prep meals, so it’s an extra incentive for him!
Chicken is also my favorite meat to cook with. I also love chicken and lemon with potatoes the best.
Chicken is just so versatile, it makes it so easy to make almost any meal with chicken.
I love sheet pan meals! This one looks amazing, I am going to try it out for my family soon – I think they would enjoy the sweet potatoes 🙂
Sheet pan meals are the best. I love the easy cleanup!
I don’t eat chicken – but those sweet potatoes look amazing! And I LOVE that your kiddos helped cook 🙂
The sweet potatoes were so good with this recipe. My boys enjoy helping in the kitchen, they don’t realize how much they are learning at the same time!
Looks like a tasty dish. Easy enough that even I could make it!
Delicious and easy for sure! I hope you give it a try and enjoy it when you do.