Recipe Roundup

47 Sheet-Pan Dinners for Easier Weeknights

Jam-glazed chicken and carrots, mustard-baked salmon and asparagus, grilled cheese for a crowd, and more.

By Emily Saladino and The Editors of Epicurious

August 22, 2024

A platter of pollo rostizado with a side of rice and beers.

In a sea of short-lived cooking hacks, sheet-pan dinners are built to last. All that expansive, short-walled surface area gives you more pan contact and air circulation. And that means beautiful browning, minimal effort on your part, and very few pots and pans to clean up afterward.

It’s a versatile approach too: Use your tried-and-true sheet pan to create everything from virtuous chicken-and-veggie suppers to gooey mac and cheese (with a higher ratio of crispy edges than classic baked versions) to date-night-worthy lamb and more. Yeah, there are a few special occasion-worthy dishes below, but with any of our best sheet-pan dinners—no matter how simple—every weeknight will feel like a special occasion.

Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Olivia Mack Anderson
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Sheet-Pan Chicken With Tomatoes and Mozzarella
This easy sheet-pan dinner recipe combines crowd-pleasing Italian American flavors like oregano, balsamic vinegar, and melty mozzarella, and it comes together in just 35 minutes.
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Judy Haubert
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Sheet-Pan Mac and Cheese
Maximize the best part of any baked mac and cheese (the crispy edges, duh) by cooking in (what else?) a sheet pan. Maybe serve a simple kale salad on the side.
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Stevie Stewart
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Spring Sheet-Pan Salmon With Roasted Artichoke Hearts and Leeks
Roasting a halved lemon on the sheet pan along with frozen artichoke hearts and leeks for this quick salmon dinner softens the pucker of the juice to use in the sauce.
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Photo by Isa Zapata, Prop Styling by Stephanie De Luca, Food Styling by Yekaterina Boystova
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Turkey Meatloaf
This meatloaf from the archives of Gourmet has been inspiring cooks for decades. To make it a true single sheet-pan dinner, toss some halved brussels sprouts and potatoes all around the edges of the pan; they’ll soak up the drippings and become extra flavorful.
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Oven-Grilled Honey-Mustard Chicken
No grill, but craving that char? This is the recipe for you. A quick marinade of mustard, honey, and mayonnaise glosses up the chicken, which is finished with a spinach salad that just wilts over the warm sweet-tangy meat.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka, Food Styling by Olivia Mack Anderson
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Sheet-Pan Roasted Squash and Feta Salad
Greek feta gives this winter squash salad a Mediterranean accent. The results are equal parts warm and cool and soft and crunchy.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell
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Roasted Niçoise Salad With Halibut
Jarred marinated artichokes bake up super crispy while the halibut stays meltingly tender in this simple sheet-pan dinner.
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Quick Baked Chicken Parmesan
So technically, we zhuzh up store-bought marinara on the stovetop with a few extra ingredients after sliding the sheet-pan chicken into the oven. But if you just want to warm up your chosen sauce as is, who are we gonna tell?
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Photo by Andrew Purcell, Food Styling by Carrie Purcell
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Sheet-Pan Collard Greens and Crispy Tofu With Niter Kibbeh
This easy dinner is inspired by gomen, an Ethiopian dish in which greens are flavored with an aromatic spiced butter. The breaded tofu is a delightful counterpoint that we could eat as a snack all on its own.
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Photo by Elizabeth Coetzee, Food styling by Rebecca Jurkevich
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Sheet-Pan Sticky Apricot Chicken
Soy sauce, Dijon mustard, and apricot jam create a gorgeously glossy sauce on this chicken dinner. It caramelizes in the oven, making every bite better than the last.
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Prop Styling by Anne Eastman, Food Styling by John Bjostad and Lillian Chou
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Khachapuri for a Crowd
This oversized khachapuri, the Georgian cheese-filled bread, is both a time-saver and a brilliant way to feed a group.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell
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Free-Form Chicken Meatballs With Carrots and Yogurt Sauce
Shaping perfect spheres is too fussy for a weeknight meal. Dropping irregular dollops of spiced ground meat onto a sheet pan and roasting them with carrots until both are golden, though? That feels like the right kind of breaking the law. (And it’s just as delicious.)
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Baked Salmon With Lemon and Thyme
True, this recipe just takes care of the protein, but you can easily toss any quick cooking veg around the sheet pan and it’ll be ready when the fish is. Think asparagus, thin strips of bell pepper, or sliced zucchini.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka, Food Styling by Dana Bonagura
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Sheet-Pan Sausages and Greens
With Italian sausages (hot or sweet), hearty greens, crispy baby potatoes, and a tangy honey-mustard sauce, this sheet-pan supper will have everyone reaching for seconds.
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Emily Saladino is a journalist, editor, and recipe developer based in New York. Formerly a culinary editor at Food Network, her work has been published in Bloomberg, The Washington Post, BBC, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and others. She reviews wines from Croatia, Hungary, Georgia, Greece, and Lebanon for Wine Enthusiast, where she ... Read More

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