Hot Honey Asian Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner

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This Hot Honey Asian Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner is an easy, budget-friendly, large family meal with chicken breasts, broccoli, and sweet potatoes. This spicy chicken sheet pan dinner can be the key to flavorful, healthy meal prepping in the New Year.

Today’s Meal Prep Tip: Marinate Your Meat

Even if you don’t like the idea of cooking all your food at once and splitting into tupperware for the rest of the week, you can easily prep your meats for the week with flavorful marinades. This allows flavor to build throughout the week and makes for a quick and easy dump-and-go crock pot meal or sheet pan dinner.

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The Secret Sauce of Meal Prepping

I love when a recipe is loaded with flavor and super simple to bring together. Being that I have a large family, we are constantly on the lookout for large meals that are not going to take me all day to prepare. But how do you get maximum flavor from minimal effort?

My secret sauce is the condiment aisle. Yes I prefer to make my own everything. We’re a homesteading family and I want to know what I’m feeding my kids. I want to be able to read the label and not need a science degree to figure out if it’s healthy or not.

But sometimes taking a shortcut with condiments like infused oils or cultural spices that aren’t your own, is the key to a meal that will have everyone excited. My favorite sections in the grocery store are the Mexican and Asian sections, specifically their condiments and spices. Consider how they have been packaged for an extended period of time. That means flavor has really had a chance to develop. In most cases that means you’ll save money because you won’t have to use 10 different ingredients, just one that has been expertly prepared.

Ingredients Needed

Exact measurements can be found in the printable recipe card below.

Chicken Breasts: This is the main protein to our sheet pan dinner. It is filling, healthy, and bland enough to take on whatever flavor profile you add to it.
Veggies: You can change up the veggie choices here, but sweet potatoes instead of rice is the healthy alternative and broccoli is a very common, crunchy companion to many Asian dishes.
Momofuku: This is a must-have! I would put this stuff on everything! Grab both the Black Truffle Chili Crunch and the Hot Honey Chili Crunch. This is what we’re using in the marinade and in the Hot Honey Mayo Drizzle.
Other: You’ll also need sesame oil, rice vinegar, Japanese mayo, salt, pepper, soy sauce, and a carrier oil such as peanut oil or avocado oil. I suggest one of these two oils because of their high smoke point. We will be cooking this sheet pan dinner at 425F and don’t want to smoke out the house.

Recipe Variations

Create a batch of simple chili oil yourself by infusing a dark jar of avocado or olive oil with crushed red pepper flakes and Szechuan peppercorns. For a more authentic DIY version check out The Woks of Life.
Note that this recipe is photographed using 2 sweet potatoes and 2 heads of broccoli. This sheet pan is a x by x inch. I could have easily doubled the sweet potatoes and broccoli to the dinner given the amount of chicken I had. Keep that in mind if you’re wanting everyone to have a bigger helping of vegetables.
Serve this over rice to get even more from the dinner or alongside a simple ramen cooked in chicken broth.

Bring the HEAT – or not.

Easily adjust the level by adding a carrier oil to the marinade, or adding additional red pepper flakes. Adding a carrier oil like I did, tones down the heat intensity as it gets spread more throughout the chicken. Increase the heat by adding additional pepper flakes or Szechuan pepper to the marinade. The recipe created here had heat to it but not so hot that my kids wouldn’t eat it. So take that for what it is!

Instructions

This is an overview of the instructions. For complete directions, scroll down to the bottom.

Start by adding the chicken breasts and the marinade ingredients to a large Ziploc bag. Remove all the air and slosh around. Place in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes or overnight.
Prep the vegetables by peeling and dicing into their own bowls. Toss in their own oil and seasonings. Cook the sweet potato first on a parchment lined sheet pan.
Add the chicken and broccoli to the sheet pan and finish cooking.
Make the Hot Honey Mayo while waiting for the chicken to cook.
Optionally: You can remove the vegetables and broil the chicken at the end for a bit of added texture.

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How to store and love your leftovers

Refrigerate: Pack leftovers in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Store the hot honey mayo separately to add to the leftovers after they’ve been reheated.
Freeze: Once the dish is completely cooled, transfer to an airtight container for 3-4 months. Likewise, the marinated raw chicken in a Ziploc bag can be frozen for 3-months.
Reheat: Frozen marinated raw chicken can be thawed in the refrigerator overnight or in a sink of cool water for about an hour. Frozen pre-made sheet pan meals should thaw in the refrigerator overnight. Reheat in the oven, microwave, or even an air fryer until your desired heat level.

Make extra of the Hot Honey Mayo Sauce because you’ll want to put it on sandwiches too!

Food Storage Guide

Print off this food storage guide from the FDA. Laminate or put into a plastic sleeve and tape to the inside of a cupboard or pantry, or in your meal planning binder for easy access.

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FAQ’s

How long to cook chicken?

Chicken comes in all shapes, sizes, and thicknesses. I didn’t pound mine down at all and it took about 22 minutes at 425F. Do yourself a favor and purchase an instant-read meat thermometer. Check the thickest part of your chicken after 15 minutes and every 5 minutes after that until it reaches 165F internally.

Why pick a sheet pan dinner?

Sheet pan dinners are incredibly easy to make and even easier to clean up. Line your sheet pan with parchment paper or aluminum foil to protect your sheet pan from getting stained.

Budgeting and Meal Planning easily

The best way to make a budget or a meal plan and stick to it, is to find recipes you and your family love. Find two week’s worth and put them on repeat. You’ll find that you come to naturally anticipate your budget each week this way. And you’ll be more enticed to meal plan because you’ll be eating the foods you already love.

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