Honey Mustard Chicken & Sweet Potato Sheet Pan Dinner

Chicken Sheet Pan Recipe

A good chicken sheet pan recipe is a cold weather staple in our house. From Lemon Feta Chicken & Potatoes to Bacon Wrapped Chicken & Squash, it is an amazing way to make a quick and easy meal on one pan. Much like this Honey Mustard Chicken & Sweet Potato Sheet Pan Dinner, you get your protein and vegetable all in on one pan.

Not only does this mean less dishes, it usually means less prep work preparing side dishes apart from the main course. When you add everything to one sheet pan, you can call the family to dinner and let them serve themselves from the pan. It’s healthy, easy and simple. It doesn’t get much better than that!

Sheet pan dinner recipes aren’t limited to just chicken breast and thighs though. This BBQ Peach Sheet Pan Pizza with shredded chicken is one of my all time favorites.

And let us not forget the original recipes that sheet pans were originated for. Desserts! From Glazed Apple Pie Bars to your favorite chocolate chip cookies. You could cook a whole feast just on sheet pans.

• Lemon Feta Chicken & Potatoes
• Bacon Wrapped Chicken & Squash
• BBQ Peach Sheet Pan Pizza
• Glazed Apple Pie Bars

Honey Mustard Baked Chicken

For this Honey Mustard Chicken dinner, you can use a pre-made honey mustard dressing to make things even quicker. Grab your favorite bottle from the grocery store and add it to a large resealable bag along with boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Let them marinate for 20 minutes while you prepare the vegetables.

If you don’t love bottled dressing, you can easily make your own honey mustard with just a few ingredients. Here is my favorite recipe for the classic dressing.

1/3 cup mayonnaise

2 Tablespoons whole grain mustard

1 1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

2 Tablespoons honey

This recipe makes more than the 1/2 cup dressing required to coat the chicken in, which is intentional. Set aside the extra 1/4 cup honey mustard for dipping the chicken and roasted sweet potatoes in!

Chicken Breast Sheet Pan Dinner

I used chicken breasts for this sheet pan dinner because they are my favorite, and what is readily available at my small town grocery store. If you aren’t a big fan of chicken breasts and prefer the juicier dark meat thighs, you can easily substitute them in this sheet pan recipe.

You can swap out boneless skinless chicken thighs and not have to adjust times much at all, if any. Depending on their size, they may need a few less or more minutes.

If you want to use thighs with skin and bones, you can add the thighs to the pan with the sweet potatoes and bake all together for roughly 30 minutes. When the chicken is done, remove it from the pan and let it rest while you finish the potatoes in the oven for an additional 5-10 minutes.

How to make chicken and sweet potato sheet pan dinner

With five simple ingredients along with a few kitchen staples, this chicken and sweet potato recipe is a great weeknight dinner. To get started, you will need the following ingredients.

1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts

1/2 cup honey mustard dressing

2 medium sweet potatoes (or 20 ounce container of diced sweet potatoes from the grocery store if you are lazy like me!)

1 small red onion

2 Tablespoons olive oil

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

Roasted sweet potatoes and onions

Peel and dice your sweet potatoes into even 1/2 pieces. Do the same for the red onion. Add the vegetables to a sheet pan and drizzle with olive oil. Toss the sweet potatoes and onions to coat. Sprinkle with the garlic powder, salt and pepper and toss again.

Place the pan of vegetable in a preheated 400F oven. Bake for 20 minutes. Carefully remove the pan from the oven.

Remove the chicken breasts from the honey mustard and nestle the chicken in between the sweet potatoes. Don’t place them over the vegetables or you will have mushy potatoes. Bake for an additional 15-20 minutes until the chicken has reached an internal temperature of 165F.

Remove from the oven and serve with additional honey mustard dressing for dipping!

Healthy Meal Prep Chicken Sheet Pan Recipe

If you love meal prepping and want some easy healthy lunches for the week, this Honey Mustard Chicken and Sweet Potatoes is a fantastic option. Much like these hugely popular BBQ Chicken & Sweet Potato bowls, you can make it primarily for meal prep, or you can make more than you need.

Whether you are single making an entire meal, or a family making a double batch, enjoy it for dinner and have plenty of leftover for a few lunches for the week.

• BBQ Chicken & Sweet Potato bowls

What to serve with honey mustard chicken and sweet potatoes

While this sheet pan dinner is great all on it’s own, you may want to add a little green to your plate for an even more robust and healthy meal. Here are a few of my favorite sides that go great with honey mustard chicken.

Ribboned Squash & Zucchini Salad – A mix of lightly sautéed vegetables with balsamic and pine nuts is perfection!

Perfect Grilled Asparagus – This classic and simple vegetable is a great side to just about any meal

Arugula Apple & Avocado Salad – This salad with a bit of sweetness is the perfect pair to honey mustard chicken.

Roasted Lemon Broccoli – Honestly, if your pan is big enough, you could add this to your sheet pan and roast with the other vegetables.

• Ribboned Squash & Zucchini Salad

Serving: 1 g | Calories: 445 kcal | Carbohydrates: 20 g | Protein: 37 g | Fat: 23 g | Saturated Fat: 4 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 18 g | Cholesterol: 105 mg | Sodium: 391 mg | Fiber: 2 g | Sugar: 9 g