This lazy chicken traybake takes five minutes to prep and uses just five ingredients! It’s a complete meal in one sheet pan, and so there’s only one pan to wash up afterwards!
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- Lazy chicken tray bake aka the easiest sheet pan dinner ever
- Ingredients for this easy sheet pan chicken dinner recipe
- How to make this garlic & rosemary chicken leg tray bake – six easy steps
- Can I use chicken thighs instead?
- I prefer my chicken skin browned and crispy, how do I do this?
- I don’t have rosemary-infused olive oil – what can I use?
- Lazy One Pan Garlic and Rosemary Chicken Tray Bake Recipe
- Pin this easy chicken tray bake recipe for later
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Lazy chicken tray bake aka the easiest sheet pan dinner ever
If I’m to be completely honest, sometimes I can be a really, really lazy cook. Sometimes I just want something effortless, something tasty that I can throw together with minimal effort. Hot comfort food with no work.
This recipe came from that, and I found myself with a considerable number of fresh beetroot in my vegetable crisper. We get regular, locally grown vegetable box deliveries, and one of my favourite vegetables included in these deliveries is fresh beetroot.
Roasted beetroot is one of the most delicious flavours, I think, and combined with roasted sweet potato and juicy roast chicken, it’s a sweet and earthy medley. Throw in some whole garlic bulbs (yes, the whole thing!) and a generous drizzle of rosemary-infused olive oil, and you’ve got a quick and easy busy midweek dinner recipe, with only one pan to wash up afterward. Win!
Ingredients for this easy sheet pan chicken dinner recipe
- chicken leg quarters or separate chicken legs/ thighs
- sweet potato
- beetroot
- garlic
- rosemary-infused olive oil
How to make this garlic & rosemary chicken leg tray bake – six easy steps
- Preheat your oven to 180 C/ 350 F/ gas mark 4 and place your chicken leg quarters on a large sheet pan.
- Peel and cut your beetroot into 1.5-inch pieces and arrange around the chicken.
- Do the same with the sweet potato.
- Cut the tops off of your garlic bulbs and arrange in the pan.
- Drizzle with rosemary-infused olive oil (or use olive oil and dried or fresh chopped rosemary).
- Season with salt and pepper, as desired, and bake for 60 minutes, basting once or twice.
Can I use chicken thighs instead?
Absolutely! Truthfully, I usually make this recipe with a mix of chicken legs and thighs. Just cut the vegetables into one-inch segments and reduce the cooking time to 45 minutes.
I prefer my chicken skin browned and crispy, how do I do this?
To get a nice, crispy brown skin simply heat some olive oil in a saute pan until hot and brown the chicken leg quarters all over before placing in the sheet pan.
I don’t have rosemary-infused olive oil – what can I use?
Use a good quality olive oil and either two teaspoonfuls of dried rosemary, or one tablespoonful of fresh, chopped rosemary.
Recipe Difficulty Levels
Easy
Requires basic cooking skills and ingredients you most likely already have in your kitchen.
Moderate
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Challenging
Recipes requiring more advanced skills and experience and maybe some special equipment.
Lazy One Pan Garlic and Rosemary Chicken Tray Bake Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 chicken leg quarters
- 400 grams beetroot
- 700 grams sweet potato
- 4 bulbs garlic
- 4 tbsp rosemary-infused olive oil see notes
- Shetland sea salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- fresh parsley to serve (optional)
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Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 C/ 350 F/ gas mark 4 and place 4 chicken leg quarters on a large sheet pan.
- Peel and cut 400 grams beetroot into 1.5-inch pieces and arrange around the chicken.
- Do the same with 700 grams sweet potato.
- Cut the tops off of 4 bulbs garlic and arrange in the pan.
- Drizzle with 4 tbsp rosemary-infused olive oil (or use olive oil and dried or fresh chopped rosemary).
- Season withShetland sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, as desired, and bake for 60 minutes, basting once or twice. Serve with fresh parsley to garnish.
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Great chicken dish. Everyone around the table liked it.
Sounds nice! 🙂
It sounds quick and tasty, the kind of dish everyone enjoys!
Perfect! As a Mummy to a 18 month old I need simple meals so an all in one tray bake is just right
Looks nice and easy to make and a great family meal 🙂
This sounds really lovely, and you can’t beat a good quality olive oil
Great and practical midweek meal for the family
love traybakes they are always family favourites so will be trying this soon
Great dish to serve the family
It looks delicious my kind of recipe as I love different tray bakes
I will probably try this out for sunday lunch
Love the sound of this recipe, it would be perfect for Sunday lunch
Looks delicious – chicken is always one of my favourite choices
Looks delicious, satisfying, and not too tricky, will give this a whirl
This looks so good! I love a quick and simple recipe every now and then, especially since I am always on the go. I have my final question for the semester: How do you deal with disaster relief/emergency when it comes to food supply? Thank you in advance for your help and answering my questions with such wonderful detail. I appreciate it!
I’m happy to help 🙂 Fortunately, we haven’t really had to deal with such a thing, but if we did, we have plenty to eat on our island – sheep, eggs, locally grown vegetables, etc. Most people buy in bulk too, given our remote location, so there’s plenty of food in the cupboards if we do get cut off for an extended period.
Yummy!
Sounds delicious!
This looks great, I’ll def be trying this over the bank holiday weekend with the family all together!
This looks delicious, we do a chicken, new potato and kale one usually, might have to give this one a go!
A WINNING combination of flavours – so easy to make too – one I’ll certainly be trying soon
So cold here today !
That’s my favourite kind of cooking, a traybake where anything goes, and you don’t have to spend ages in the kitchen.
Sounds delicious and great as a one pot wonder too
Sounds delicious and easy to make
Looks delicious! I would probably leave out the garlic though, not a huuge garlic fan!
Looks delicious – I think I might use ordinary potato instead of sweet potato though, I always find sweet potato too sweet unless it’s absolutely drowned in spices.
This recipe sounds delicious.
One of my favourite recipes, except I always chicken thighs, thank you for sharing!
It sounds divine, would like to attempt it and cook for all the family, sure it would go down well
This is a great recipe my whole family would enjoy so it rates a 10 out of 10.
Delicious, a real treat! My family would love this blend of flavours. Looks easy to make too.
i will defo be giving this a go looks delicious!
I love olive oil and garlic.
it sounds really yummy and something my son would actually eat as well
this dish sounds delicious, all my family will love
This is my kind of recipe. Not only because it’s all in one tray, but I just love the ingredients. The flavours mixed together are calling to me. I shall definitely be making this. Many thanks.
Olive oil and garlic. It doesn’t matter about the others , it’s a winner !