One Pan Baked Chicken with Butternut Squash and Parmesan Asparagus
An easy fool-proof sheet pan dinner! And the chicken comes out so moist and tender!
Guys. Um, can we talk about how I’m completely and utterly obsessed with sheet pan dinners now?
I mean, I love a good one pot meal BUT a sheet pan dinner is off. the. hook.
Wait, I’ve never used that phrase before.
Weird.
But my point is, this one single sheet pan dinner needed to be made yesterday.
Crisp-tender chicken breasts coupled with thyme-roasted butternut squash and cheesy asparagus spears.
You have your greens, your side and your main – basically a full-course meal for those nights when you can’t be bothered to do anything else.
One Pan Baked Chicken with Butternut Squash and Parmesan Asparagus
An easy fool-proof sheet pan dinner! And the chicken comes out so moist and tender!
Ingredients
- 1 cup Italian bread crumbs
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1 large butternut squash, about 3 pounds, peeled, seeded and cut in 1-inch chunks
- 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 pound asparagus, trimmed
- ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly oil a baking sheet or coat with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl, combine bread crumbs and lemon zest; set aside.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper, to taste. Working one at a time, dredge chicken in flour, dip into eggs, then dredge in bread crumbs mixture, pressing to coat.
- Place butternut squash in a single layer onto one side of the prepared baking sheet. Stir in 2 tablespoons olive oil and thyme; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Place chicken in a single layer in the middle of the prepared baking sheet and coat with nonstick spray. Place into oven and bake until golden brown and crisp, about 18-20 minutes.
- Add asparagus onto the opposite side of the prepared baking sheet in a single layer during the last 10-12 minutes of cooking time. Drizzle with remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and sprinkle with Parmesan.
- Serve immediately, garnished with parsley, if desired.
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Oh my! Three of my favorite things! This is awesome. Although, for my tastes I would put the chicken in last!
I like my veggies with that roasted — what do you call that? Roasted caramelization? Anyway . . . this is really a great idea usually I have a pan of each and end up eating too much. This will help with that.
Oh, I wish I had all these ingredients NOW! Thanks for this! YUM!!!!!!!
This looks incredibly yummy (but then….ALL of your recipes do)! I was wondering if you could estimate how many ounces one of your chicken breasts were? Sometimes I get gi-normous ones and I am sure they would not cook in the same amount of time….so if you could guess at average ounces I would totally appreciate it.
thx!
I used average-sized, boneless chicken breasts, about 6-8 ounces each.
Chungah, Another GREAT recipe! One question: in the picture of the One Pan Chicken and veggies, are those chicken cutlets or regular thick chicken breasts? KEEP UP YOUR FANTASTIC BLOG!!
Thank you, Reenie. I actually used chicken breasts.
I so wish peeps would think carefully and thoughtfully about what they write. To wit, you cannot line up the swuash in a single layer and then STIR in olive oil???? Better said: in a large bowl place the butternut squash, stir in olive oil, coating the swuash, then line up each piece on one sode of the cook sheet in a single layer…. much more sensible, capice?
Considering at step 4 there is no other ingredients on the baking sheet, it is quite feasible to “stir” the olive oil then arrange the squash on the side. I too wish people would thoughtfully read, attempt to comprehend before they comment. And I would go a step further and also wish that these people would take some time to spell check and draft a tactful comment to a post. But sometimes I wish too much.
“Swuash?”
Wait!! How did you prepare the butternut squash?
Please refer to step #4:
Place butternut squash in a single layer onto one side of the prepared baking sheet. Stir in 2 tablespoons olive oil and thyme; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Do you have a Trader Joe’s or maybe an Albertson’s near you? If so, you can buy the squash already cubed, prepackaged and ready to cook. Just buy as much as you need.
Nice one!