These Sheet Pan Chicken Thighs are so quick, easy, and delicious, you’ll want to make them every day. It might become your go-to traybake.

Your family and friends will love this traybake, because it’s fresh and meaty and juicy and zesty. And satisfying!

This is an easy way to make a quick, home-cooked meal.

Six ingredients! Is this the smallest ingredient list I’ve ever published? No. But it is close. And rare.

Only half the time is active, which means that with 30 minutes of easy, breezy work, you can sit around watching replays of the Olympics and have a truly good home-cooked meal before the mixed doubles curling match you’re re-watching is even a quarter of the way over.

Cooking Tips

The potatoes, if you cut them into small bites, as suggested, will be perfectly done. The broccoli, which I prefer to be in larger bites, will be caramelized and al dente.

This recipe’s timing isn’t long enough to melt away all the fat from the chicken – which is perfect, because it’ll leave you with very juicy meat. However, if the thighs seems to have excess fat, trim it away during your prep. 

Variations

This is the best part of this recipe: you can do it with any kind of sauce. So, don’t even bother looking for Vidalia Onion Steak Sauce. You could do this with probably any kind of cooking, grilling, basting, simmering (like Madras Curry), wing (like Garlic Parmesan, or Gochujang), or barbecue sauce. Although the sauce I used called itself a “steak sauce,” it was the consistency of a typical barbecue sauce (as opposed to something more like A1), and that’s exactly what you want. You want it to be as thick as the thickest Thousand Island dressing, so that it’s able to cling to the chicken.  

Of course you have all sorts of choices in the vegetables, too. You just have to consider how well they’ll match with your chosen sauce.  

Servings

In terms of servings, 3⅓ lbs of thighs is likely eight thighs. Two to a person makes for the four servings that I’m suggesting. They’re perfectly-sized servings to my way of thinking. Three or more thighs per person is too much. One thigh per person isn’t enough, unless you have very light eaters, or lots of substantial sides in addition to the vegetables that are already in the dish. What these additional sides might be would depend on the sauce you used. Since I used what I consider to be a barbecue sauce masquerading as a steak sauce, I’d bring in anything that goes with barbecue, from cole slaw to MF corn bread. 

Leftovers

This dish is serviceable leftover, but much better fresh.

Sheet Pan Chicken Thighs

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