23 Sheet-Pan Recipes for Low-Fuss Meals (2024)

Sheet-pan meals are popular for a reason: They're typically pretty simple, and better yet, they majorly cut down on the number of dishes you need to wash come clean-up time. Dinners like chicken and mushrooms with parsley sauce and sheet-pan pizza (that's right, pizza) are great for weeknights. As for breakfast? You can make a sheet-pan quiche, and even a berry syrup that's perfect for pancakes. Read on for even more of our favorite sheet pan recipes.

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Sheet-Pan Chicken with Sourdough and Bacon

Justin Chapple's roast chicken legs drip meaty, delicious fat onto a smoky, peppery bed of potatoes, red onion, and crispy croutons.

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Brown-Butter Pancakes with Sheet Pan Berry Syrup

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Food & Wine Cooks contributor Andrea Slonecker channeled her lifelong love of pancakes to take this breakfast basic to a delicious new level. Toasty browned butter infuses the barely sweet batter, which fries up on the griddle into fluffy, lacy-edged flapjacks. To top it off, her super-fast sheet pan fruit syrup comes together in just minutes; frozen berries burst in the oven, releasing their juices to mingle with caramelly brown sugar and a little bit of lemon for balance.

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Spring Onion and Salami Sheet-Pan Pizza

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When making sheet-pan pizza, bring the dough to room temperature before shaping. This ensures the gluten is relaxed and the dough doesn't shrink from the pan edges.

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Sheet Pan Hanger Steak and Bok Choy with Lemon-Miso Butter

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"You may notice that this recipe makes more miso butter than one could conceivably dollop onto a single dinner," Leah Koenig writes. "That leftover butter stores well in the fridge and enhances everything it touches, from grilled fish and pasta to warm biscuits and popcorn."

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Sheet-Pan Chicken with Zucchini and Garlicky Tomato Relish

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This all-in-one dinner starts out minimalist—just chicken pieces and zucchini and shallot chunks, tossed with the usual suspects (olive oil, salt, and pepper) before roasting. But as the chicken and vegetables brown beautifully in the oven, you make the most of your time, prepping a herb-packed, garlic-spiked cherry tomato relish. The final trick? Using that relish to deglaze the sheet pan after it comes out of the oven, making the most of the savory pan juices, blunting the bite of the vinegar and garlic, and softening the tomatoes just enough to bloom all the flavors.

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Roasted Squash Salad with Sumac and Italian Dressing

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Petals of red onion, nutty acorn squash, and pickled peperoncini tossed in a creamy Italian dressing make a hearty but not heavy side. Inspired by chef Scott Tacinelli's crispy sweet potatoes at Don Angie in New York, we're adding sumac to the dressing, giving it an herbal, lemony kick.

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Sausage and Red Onion Sheet Pan Quiche

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At Convivial in Washington, D.C., Cedric Maupillier's foot-long quiche takes this breakfast classic to the next level. This version, prepared in a rimmed baking sheet, makes plenty for the whole family.

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Roasted Honey-Dijon Salmon with Spring Vegetables

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This recipe is incredibly easy to adapt throughout the seasons—simply swap in whatever vegetables you have on hand, and be sure to add the slow-cooking ones to the pan first.

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Summer Peach and Blackberry Galette

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Katie Button's easy-to-make galette dough bakes into a flaky crust with a crisp bottom thanks to a high initial baking temperature, which is then lowered to finish cooking, allowing the filling to get perfectly glossy and jammy.

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Sheet-Pan Salmon with Black-Olive Butter

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In this elegant sheet-pan supper, salmon fillets are slathered with a flavor-packed butter of smashed garlic and salty, oil-cured olives.

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Smoky Breakfast Pizzas

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Chef Justin Bazdarich makes his Kind Brother pizza at Speedy Romeo in Brooklyn extra decadent with a combination of béchamel and smoked mozzarella. This easy version also calls for smoked mozzarella, plus a drizzle of fresh basil oil for a pop of freshness.

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Sheet-Pan Tofu with Broccolini, Mushrooms, and Sweet Potatoes

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A citrus-soy marinade adds zing to crisp roasted tofu in this easy sheet-pan dinner that's ready in under an hour.

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Sheet Pan Salmon with Brussels Sprouts

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"I get excited making this dinner because it's easy, full of flavor, and a good balance of sweet, sour, and spicy—depending on how much cayenne pepper you add," Klancy Miller writes. "Start with a small pinch to start, then add more if you prefer a spicy kick. That's the great part about cooking for yourself—you can crank up the heat as much as you want!"

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Sheet Pan Baked Chicken, Feta, Tomatoes, and Kale with Pasta

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Tangy feta and juicy tomatoes roast together in the oven, creating a creamy sauce that clings to ruffly campanelle or corkscrew-shaped cavatappi pasta in this easy bake sheet pan dinner.

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Sheet Pan Eggplant Parmesan

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Be sure to let the eggplant drain to achieve the best charred eggplant texture.

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Roasted Sheet Pan Broccoli with Pickled Pepper Vinaigrette

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Tossing broccoli pieces with oil, salt, and pimentón (Spanish paprika), then roasting them on a preheated baking sheet in a super-hot oven coaxes out the vegetable's sweet side as the florets crisp and the stems turn meaty and tender.

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Roasted Merguez Sausage with Apples and Onions

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For this sheet-pan dinner, use Honeycrisp or Pink Lady apples, which hold their shape better during roasting than other varieties. Plus, their pleasant sweetness balances the intensely spiced merguez sausage.

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Herbes de Provence–Crusted Branzino and Fingerlings

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This super-easy meal calls for less than 10 ingredients—six, if you don't count the kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper.

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Spatchco*cked Sheet-Pan Turkey with Brown Sugar and Coriander

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This next-level turkey has two tricks up its sleeve: dry-brining and spatchco*cking.Roast it on a foil-lined sheet tray for about 2 hours, keeping active time to 30 minutes.

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Crispy Chicken Thighs with Spice-Roasted Radishes

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This one-step recipe is as simple as it gets.

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Ancho-Rubbed Turkey Breast with Vegetables

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To enhance turkey's flavor and moistness, and to create an exceptionally crisp skin, Justin Chapple rubs the bird with a salt, sugar and spice mix before roasting.

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Sausage-and-Potato Pan Roast

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For the perfect cold-weather weeknight dinner, Justin Chapple makes this one-pan dish, roasting sweet sausages with potatoes and shallots and tossing them with brightly flavored arugula and lemon before serving.

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Sheet Pan Chicken and Mushrooms with Parsley Sauce

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Cookbook author Julia Turshen amps up the flavors in her simple (and quick!) chicken and mushroom pan roast with roasted lemons and a bright and fresh parsley sauce.

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