The sheet-pan dinner is a beautiful concept. For those of us who are short on time or just love a good lazy man’s hack, sheet pans can get a whole meal cooked beautifully, in a completely hands-off manner. A little bit of prep is always required for great meals, but once it’s in the oven, you can focus on something else.
Not sure where to start? Here are 15 recipes for cheap and easy sheet pan dinners.
Sheet Pan Steak Fajitas
This is a breeze. Prep some fresh cilantro, chop an onion, and lay out some tortillas while the steak and veggies roast, and presto, you’ve got a fajita dinner.
Recipe: Less With Laur
Maple and Miso Sheet-Pan Salmon With Green Beans
You may think you don’t know how to cook fish, but you’re wrong. It’s easy; you can bake this salmon in less than 15 minutes.
Recipe: NYT Cooking
Sheet Pan Hawaiian Chicken
Salty-sweet fans will love this one, packed with delicious, baked pineapple.
Recipe: The Menu Maid
Old Bay Sheet Pan Shrimp with Corn and Tomatoes
No need to spend all day on a shrimp boil today. The sheet pan is taking care of that one, baby.
Recipe: SkinnyTaste
Sheet Pan Loaded Nachos
Isabel Eats has some good stuff in this recipe, and you can bet your sweet bippy that the next time I make nachos (which is often, I’m afraid), I’ll be doing a double layer of chips.
Recipe: Isabel Eats
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Sheet Pan BBQ Chicken and Vegetables
You’ve got a whole barbecue’s worth of food in one fell swoop here.
Recipe: Sweet Savory and Steph
Sheet Pan Garlic Butter Steak and Potatoes
Feeling like a steakhouse meal but don’t have a grill? You can get this going in a sheet pan too, but make sure you give your steak a bit of a sear on each side to lock in that crust.
Recipe: Savory Nothings
Sheet Pan Honey Garlic Shrimp
Green beans are the only other veggie included here, but you can spruce that up easily.
Recipe: The Real Food Dietitians
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Sheet Pan Spiced Veggie and Turkey Meatballs with Yogurt Sauce
It’s a huge pain in the keester to fry meatballs one at a time, but to bake them all up on a sheet pan all at once? With a nice, even cook? That’s the ticket right there.
Recipe: Jenn Eats Good
Easy Sheet Pan Kielbasa and Tortellini Dinner
Kielbasa isn’t required of course, nor is tortellini. Those things are good though, and you came here for a recipe, so quite arguing with me about it already.
Recipe: The Farm Style
Baked Sheet Pan Chicken Parm
Will baked chicken parm ever compare to proper, fried-and-then-broiled chicken parm? No, of course not. Almost no food can. But this is far less labor intensive and a whole lot healthier, so consider those two wins.
Recipe: Olive & Mango
Greek Lemon Garlic Sheet Pan Salmon with Potatoes
Another foolproof way to cook salmon? Cover it with veggies and rub it up with Greek spices like oregano, thyme, parsley, mint, and dill.
Recipe: Food by Maria
Sheet Pan Mini Meatloaves with Potatoes and Green Beans
Did you know you could legally make a mini meatloaf? I did not. These things are somewhere between a meatball and a burger patty, but a little looser, and full of my least favorite ingredient in the world, ketchup. You can nail the potatoes easily with a 25 minute cook.
Recipe: Strawberry Blondie
Sheet Pan Garlic Ranch Tofu with Vegetables
It’s incredibly easy to mimic fried tofu by covering it with panko and baking it, so take advantage of that.
Recipe: From My Bowl
Chicken Shawarma Sheet Pan Dinner
If you think this sounds complicated, you’re in luck. It’s not. In fact, you may be able to assemble a makeshift shawarma seasoning without having to shop for anything additional, depending on how stocked your pantry is. If you’ve got cinnamon, turmeric, cumin, and cardamom, you’re perfect.
Recipe: The Modern Proper
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