Sheet Pan Chicken Breast is a complete meal made entirely on one pan. It's the perfect time-saving recipe for a busy weeknight or when you don't feel like cooking. The chicken is wonderfully juicy, while the potatoes and veggies are tender and well-seasoned with bold spices. All the ingredients also get a lovely crust while roasting for even more flavor and depth.
Sheet Pan Chicken Breasts Recipe Essentials
- 🍽️ Course: Main Dish
- ⏱️ Cooking Time: 45 minutes
- 🍴 Servings: 4
- 🧄 Flavor Profile: Savory, roasted chicken with garlic, lemon, and Italian herb seasoning.
- 🍚 Best Served With: A salad and easy dessert for a full meal
- 🧊 Make Ahead?: Yes, this can be prepped the day before and baked when ready to serve.
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This has become part of my weekly dinner rotation. It's simple, inexpensive, and a total crowd pleaser. If you have picky eaters in your life, this is a recipe they can get behind because it's easy to switch the vegetables and even the seasonings to suit your personal preferences.
If you enjoy simple sheet pan recipes, you'll love this easy sheet pan breakfast and sweet potato sheet pan.
Why This Recipe Works
- It's customizable and flexible: You can get fully creative with this sheet pan chicken and veggies! Whether you want to use different vegetables, another variety of potato, or your favorite spice blend, it all works!
- It's made in one pan: This also saves you time on prepping and cleaning up. It all cooks on one baking sheet, so you don't have to worry about washing a bunch of pots and pans after dinner.
- It's perfect for meal prep: If you want a quick and nutritious recipe for meal prep, this is one I always recommend first. It's balanced, healthy, and reheats perfectly, even in the microwave.
Ingredients
The key ingredients for this roast chicken with potatoes and vegetables are listed below. I included some helpful info and tips to ensure your success.
- Chicken breasts: Boneless, skinless chicken breasts are the way to go. I don't do a lot of prep with them besides patting them dry and trimming any extra fat if needed. Then, they go straight onto the pan.
- Potatoes: I like to go with halved baby potatoes for convenience. It takes less time to cut them in half than it would to cube red potatoes, for example. However, you can use any kind of potato you have on hand; just chop them evenly.
- Veggies: I keep it simple with red bell pepper, shallots, and zucchini. You can obviously make simple swaps with green or yellow bell peppers, red onion, and yellow squash. They roast nicely, just like they do in this recipe for Mediterranean roasted vegetables.
- Lemon: The touch of acidity adds a lovely brightness to the chicken and veggies. I love adding lemon juice to sheet pan meals because it really lifts the flavors to the next level. Always use fresh when you can!
See the recipe card below for exact ingredient amounts, nutritional information, and detailed instructions.
Variations
- Greek-style: To add some Greek flavors, add ½ teaspoon of dried oregano to the spice mix, and swap the fresh parsley for freshly chopped dill. Enjoy with some tzatziki yogurt sauce.
- Spicy Southwest: Add ½ teaspoon of chipotle chili pepper powder to the spices for some smoky heat.
- Swap the veggies: Make this recipe with cubes of sweet potato, broccoli, or cauliflower.
How to Make Sheet Pan Chicken Breast
Start by preheating your oven to 425°F and grabbing a sheet pan. You may grease the pan or line it with foil before you add the chicken, potatoes, and vegetables.
Step 1: Arrange everything on the sheet pan. Add the veggies, potatoes, and chicken breasts to the sheet pan. Then drizzle the oil and squeeze lemon juice over the veggies and both sides of the chicken breasts before sprinkling the seasonings generously over the veggies and both sides of the chicken breasts.
Step 2: Bake and serve. Pop it in the oven and bake it for about 30 minutes, and then lightly toss the veggies. Allow it to cook for another 10-15 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through. Enjoy them with a slice of peanut butter cookie pie for dessert.
Expert Tips
- Rest the chicken before slicing: Allow the chicken to rest for 10 minutes after you pull the sheet pan out of the oven. This lets the juices redistribute, so when you slice it, it will still be nice and juicy in the middle.
- Temp the chicken to check doneness: I like to use a meat thermometer to tell when the chicken is fully cooked. Insert it into the thickest part of the breast, and it should reach a minimum internal temperature of 165°F for food safety.
- Cut the veggies evenly: Ensure that you chop the veggies as evenly as possible. If you cut some too small or too large, they may also cook unevenly.
- Storing the leftovers: Place leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- Reheating the leftovers: You can reheat your sheet pan chicken breast and veggies in the microwave for 1-2 minutes or in the oven at 350°F for 8-10 minutes or until warm.
Another fabulous sheet pan chicken dinner is this chicken and vegetables recipe.
Serving Suggestions
- Some of my favorite dipping sauces to serve with this sheet pan chicken, veggies, and potatoes are hot BBQ sauce and healthy honey mustard dip.
- You can't go wrong with crispy and buttery air fryer frozen garlic bread as a quick and easy pairing.
- Enjoy with a light side dish like this strawberry spinach salad with goat cheese.
Sheet Pan Chicken Breasts Recipe FAQs
Chicken breasts dry out when they cook too long, especially at lower temperatures. Use a higher oven temperature so they cook quickly and stay juicy, and make sure the breasts are an even thickness so they finish at the same time. If needed, pound them slightly before baking
I find that this happens if some of the potatoes are larger than others. If you have some slightly larger baby potatoes, you may cut them into thirds or quarters to keep them even, so you don't end up with undercooked potatoes later.
Excess moisture can make your chicken breasts steam in the oven, making them seem more boiled than roasted. Pat them completely dry, use enough oil to get some color on the outside as they cook, and make sure you don't overcrowd the ingredients in the pan.
I find this happens when the vegetables are either cut too small or the pan is too overcrowded. Smaller veggies cook faster and are more likely to become overcooked and mushy, so try to keep them in similar-sized chunks that aren't too small. Also, be careful not to overcrowd the pan, because the veggies will steam rather than roast, which can also make them too soft and mushy.
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Sheet Pan Chicken Breasts
Equipment
- 13x18 sheet pan
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds potatoes halved, small
- 1 zucchini sliced and halved
- 6 shallots halved and quartered
- 1 Red bell pepper chopped
- 6 garlic cloves minced
- 2 pounds chicken breasts
- 4 tablespoons avocado oil
- 1 lemon juiced
- 2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425° F.
- Cut the vegetables and mince the garlic.
- Place the vegetables and chicken breasts on a 13x18 sheet pan.
- Drizzle the avocado oil over everything in the sheet pan.
- Squeeze the lemon juice over everything in the sheet pan.
- Sprinkle the dried seasonings over the chicken and vegetables.
- With clean hands, rub the seasonings over both sides of the chicken and vegetables,
- Place the sheet pan in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Toss the vegetables.
- Cook for an additional 10 to 15 minutes or until the chicken has an internal temperature of 165° F.
- Transfer the chicken to a plate and broil the vegetables on high (500° F) for up to 5 minutes, checking every 1 minute to achieve a nice golden color on the potatoes. Keep an eye on the peppers to make sure they do not burn.
- Sprinkle fresh parsley over the chicken and drizzle a bit of avocado oil on it, then enjoy.
Notes
- Allow the chicken breasts to rest before slicing to ensure they remain juicy. About 10 minutes or so should be plenty of time after you take them out of the oven.
- Cut the baby potatoes into even pieces to ensure that they all cook at the same rate. Slightly larger pieces may still be hard while the smaller ones are fully cooked.
- Evenly thick chicken breasts will cook similarly, preventing one from drying out. It's also important to keep the oven high at 425F and not lower the temperature. Lower temps mean slower cooking and a higher chance of losing more moisture.
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