Teriyaki Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner
Being a busy mom, I love a good one-dish meal. No messing around with separate meat, veggie, and starch dishes: just cook ONE dish with everything in it and boom, put it on the table.
One way to do that is with a sheet pan dinner. You put your meat, veggies, and seasoning all on a big baking sheet, put it in the oven, and give it all a nice, long, slow roasting. Aside from being easy, this cooking method really brings out the flavor in both veggies and meats.
The other nice thing about sheet pan cooking is that it works with just about any kind of cuisine. Italian, Indian, Mexican – you name it, you can roast it.
For example, here’s my latest sheet pan experiment: Teriyaki Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner. You put your seasoned chicken on a pan, surrounded by delicious veggies – broccoli, red pepper, carrots, pea pods, water chestnuts. Then, as you bake it, you baste it repeatedly with teriyaki sauce. As you build up layer on layer of it, the delicious sweet-and-salty sauce soaks right into the meat and caramelizes into a beautiful, golden-brown glaze on top.
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Pull it out, sprinkle on some sesame seeds, and you’ve got a gorgeous Japanese meal that looks as good as it tastes. All you need to make it a complete meal is some plain white rice. (Yeah, okay, that’s two dishes – but one of them is so easy it hardly counts.)
Teriyaki Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner
Ingredients
4 chicken thighs
4 chicken legs
2 carrots, peeled and sliced on the diagonal, approx. 1/2 “ thick
1 cup broccoli
1 cup pea pods
1 red pepper sliced
1 small can water chestnuts, drained (optional)
1 cup Teriyaki sauce, your favorite
½ tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp ginger, ground
as desired salt and pepper
as desired sesame seeds for garnish
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Rinse off chicken. Remove skin if you prefer, or leave as is. Season with salt, pepper, garlic and ginger.
2. In a large bowl, combine all the vegetables and drizzle in sesame oil, olive oil and salt and pepper. Toss the vegetables to ensure even coverage of oils and seasonings.
3. On a large sheet pan, arrange chicken pieces and then set out the vegetables. Try to keep everything on the same level. With a basting brush, liberally baste the chicken pieces with the teriyaki sauce.
4. Bake for approximately 15 minutes and then liberally baste again. Repeat this process until the chicken is cooked thoroughly (180 degrees). This will take usually 35 – 40 minutes or so depending on your oven.
Note: if you find the sauce is not caramelizing as much as you prefer, then at the last 5 minutes of cooking, remove the vegetables and place the chicken on the broil setting for 1 – 2 minutes. Watch it closely as the sugars in the sauce will burn quickly.
Garnish with sesame seeds and enjoy!
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Teriyaki Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner
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Ingredients
- 4 chicken thighs
- 4 chicken legs
- 2 carrots peeled and sliced on the diagonal, approx. 1/2 “ thick
- 1 cup broccoli
- 1 cup pea pods
- 1 red pepper sliced
- 1 can water chestnuts optional
- 1 cup Teriyaki sauce your favorite
- ½ tsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp ginger ground
- as desired salt and pepper
- as desired sesame seeds for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Rinse off chicken. Remove skin if you prefer, or leave as is. Season with salt, pepper, garlic and ginger.
- In a large bowl, combine all the vegetables and drizzle in sesame oil, olive oil and salt and pepper. Toss the vegetables to ensure even coverage of oils and seasonings.
- On a large sheet pan, arrange chicken pieces and then set out the vegetables. Try to keep everything on the same level. With a basting brush, liberally baste the chicken pieces with the teriyaki sauce.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes and then liberally baste again. Repeat this process until the chicken is cooked thoroughly (180 degrees). This will take usually 35 – 40 minutes or so depending on your oven.
- Note: if you find the sauce is not caramelizing as much as you prefer, then at the last 5 minutes of cooking, remove the vegetables and place the chicken on the broil setting for 1 – 2 minutes. Watch it closely as the sugars in the sauce will burn quickly.
- Garnish with sesame seeds and enjoy!
Nutrition
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