Dinner Made Easy: Flavorful Chicken, Potatoes, and Carrots on One Pan!

Baked Ranch Chicken with Carrots and Potatoes is a 30 minute, easy, weeknight sheet pan dinner. Roasted potatoes and carrots make up a flavorful dinner that’s simple for busy nights and clean up’s a breeze.

Ranch Sheet Pan ChickenPhoto byButter & Baggage

Got 10 minutes, Make Chicken & Potatoes for Dinner

Regardless of your cooking skills, we all have busy nights when we don’t want to spend time in the kitchen. A chicken sheet pan dinner is just what you need when you don’t know what to fix for dinner. This only took me 8 minutes to prepare with just 6 ingredients.

The chicken has just a hint of sweetness from a little brown sugar and is savory due to the herbs in the dried ranch dressing sprinkled over the top. It gives both the chicken and the veggies a great flavor. Both the roasted chicken and potatoes get nice and crispy while they bake, but you still have juicy chicken.

Everyone has 10 minutes to make a delicious dinner and there’s hardly any clean up – winner winner chicken dinner! 🍗 You’ll want to add this no fuss chicken recipe to your rotation.

Who Doesn’t Love 10 Minutes of Prep Time

• Ranch chicken is so easy to put together but still has a great flavor and is not your everyday oven roasted chicken.
• Sprinkling a small amount of brown sugar on the chicken pieces and then adding the powdered ranch dressing, gives it just a slightly sweet and savory flavor.
• The carrots and potatoes take on the sweet ranch flavor that even your pickiest eater will love.
• Prep in 10 minutes.
• Almost no clean up needed.

What You'll Need to Make Sheet Pan Chicken

Ingredients

• ▢8 chicken thighs with bone and skin
• ▢1 to 2 tablespoon brown sugar
• ▢1 lb baby red potatoes
• ▢1 lb baby carrots
• ▢2 tablespoons olive oil
• ▢1 oz ranch seasoning and salad dressing mix (1 package)
• ▢3 cloves garlic (minced)
• ▢salt and pepper (to taste)

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400º. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil or spray with cooking spray.
• Pat chicken dry and salt and pepper. Rub a little brown sugar on both side of each piece of chicken, working it under the skin. Place on rimmed baking sheet.
• Scrub carrots and potatoes. Cut potatoes into quarters and place on rimmed baking sheet along with carrots in a single layer.
• Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with ranch dressing and minced garlic. Season with salt and pepper.
• Place in oven and cook until internal temperature is about 165º, about 30 minutes.
• If you want to use breasts and thighs, you may need to remove the breasts earlier and cover with foil while the thicker pieces cook.

When you need more ideas for chicken dinners, try some of these:

• Chicken and Dumplings
• Chicken Pot Pie with Crumbles
• Chicken Marsala Meatballs