Sheet Pan Easter Dinner
Pineapple ham, scalloped potatoes, lemon garlic asparagus, honey roasted carrots, and fluffy mile-high biscuits on TWO SHEET PANS!
Easter 2020 will be like no other. A lot of us are apart from our families in self-isolation and cannot travel to see our loved ones right now. But thanks to technology and the beloved Internet, we can still have a virtual Easter Sunday, brunching together through a ZOOM meeting.
So that’s where these sheet pans enter. Please say hello to an Easter brunch feast ON TWO SHEET PANS.
That’s right. Two sheet pans. 1 hour. And all the Easter goodies: pineapple ham, Parmesan scalloped potatoes, lemon-garlicky asparagus, honey roasted carrots, and of course, fluffy mile-high biscuits.
Yes, yes, and yes. It serves four so it doesn’t make too much food but just enough to give you some fantastic leftovers for Monday. So quarantine or not, Easter feasting doesn’t look so bad after all, right?
Sheet Pan Easter Dinner
Ingredients
For the scalloped potatoes
- 2 pounds medium red potatoes, thinly sliced
- 1 ½ cups heavy cream
- ½ cup chicken stock
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 3 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan
For the ham
- 3 tablespoons orange marmalade, melted
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 1-pound ham steaks
- 3 slices fresh pineapple, cored and halved
For the asparagus
- 1 pound asparagus, trimmed
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
For the carrots
- 1 pound medium carrots, trimmed
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon honey
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
For the biscuits
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Lightly oil one baking sheet or coat with nonstick spray. Line an additional baking sheet with foil, building separate foil trays by folding a large piece of foil in half, and folding up the edges to create two trays; lightly oil or coat with nonstick spray.
- FOR THE SCALLOPED POTATOES: In a large skillet over medium heat, combine potatoes, heavy cream, chicken stock, thyme, rosemary, garlic, 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until reduced and potatoes are just tender but still firm, about 5-6 minutes.
- Add potatoes in an overlapping pattern on the foil of the prepared baking sheet. Pour 3 tablespoons cream mixture over potatoes; sprinkle with Parmesan.
- FOR THE HAM: In a small bowl, combine orange marmalade, rosemary and pepper.
- Cut each ham steak into 6 pieces, discarding bone and any excess fat. Arrange ham and pineapple in a single layer next to the scalloped potatoes. Brush evenly with orange marmalade mixture.
- FOR THE ASPARAGUS: Place asparagus in a single layer onto the second prepared baking sheet. Add olive oil, garlic and lemon zest; gently toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- FOR THE CARROTS: Place carrots onto the opposite side of the asparagus in a single layer. Stir in butter and honey; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- FOR THE BISCUITS: In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Stir in heavy cream and stir using a rubber spatula until a soft dough forms. Working on a lightly floured surface, knead the dough 3-4 times until it comes together. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a 1-inch thick rectangle, trimming the edges. Using a sharp knife, cut dough into 6 square biscuits.
- Place biscuits around the edges of the sheet pan with asparagus and carrots.
- Place sheet pans into oven, on separate racks, and bake until asparagus and carrots are tender and biscuits are golden brown, about 14-16 minutes, rotating pans halfway through baking. Continue baking scalloped potatoes and ham until potatoes are cooked through, about 20-22 minutes.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
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Excellent group and tech on making this awesome recipe for sure! I used canned pineapple (the hole in the middle held the self-basting orange marmalade sauce.) I would either split the carrots length-wise or blanch a bit before to insure full cooking. Biscuits are the bomb and are so easy to make. Thank you!
I made this meal last year when I broke my wrist & could not use both hands very well. Sheet pan recipes were much easier to do.
I loved this meal! I added the leftover cream sauce from the potatoes to the biscuits and they were very yummy.
This is now a go-to recipe for holidays when I don’t want all the fuss.
I love making this meal – very good & it takes only 30 minutes in the oven. I found that prep time took 1 hour & I used 4 sheet pans – 1 for the ham & pineapple, 1 for the scalloped potatoes, 1 for the carrots, & 1 for the asparagus & biscuits.
There was a lot of the cream sauce leftover from the scalloped potatoes – I used this for the biscuit recipe in place of the cream – it added nice flavor to the biscuits with the added herbs & garlic. I put the ham, potatoes & carrots in oven first & cooked for the full 30 minutes. In the last 15 minutes I put the asparagus & biscuits in the oven as they do not take as long to cook.
Absolutely love this recipe. Thank-you!
Amazing! We are not ham fans, so I made a brisket in the slow cooker, but I made all the sides as written here and everything was awesome! Love the low-hassle prep and easy clean-up!
Wonderful dinner! So easy and filling. Used gourmet potatoes and fixed the leftover cream as a gravy. Doing the biscuits separately because I’m making too many to fit. Easy and delicious.Â
Just finished this dinner for Easter. It was delicious! A big hit in my house.  Especially loved the method for scalloped potatoes.  So many times I’ve made them in the oven and by the time the potatoes were ready the topping were burned.  This shortened the cooking time and they came perfect.  Thanks so much for an easier holiday recipe!
This looks delicious but I’d like to have as much done before coming home from church so I can pop it in the oven. Can anything be prepped ahead of time; specifically for the veggies the day before? Thank you!Â
This looks fantastic! And I love the idea of the whole meal being in the oven at once. Did you use convection or a standard oven? Do you think it will matter if I only have a standard oven? Thank so much!
Can you do this with ham steaks that are fully cooked and hickory smoked?
I cooked everything but the biscuits, was very easy and delicious. Will make again.
This was a hit with everyone, even the picky eaters. Doing it again this year, less stressful than my usual recipes and leaves more time to relax and enjoy the day. Thanks so much!
This looks delicious. It be very helpful if nutritional information for each dish was included so substitutions in the recipes could be made. I must be particularly careful of sodium, carbs, & the not so healthy fats. I can usually scan a recipe & tell what needs to be substituted, but having this info really helps. Thanks
It looks spectacular, I definitely need to make it <3
I just made the ham and potato portion of this and it was great! Such a neat idea!
This was really simple and tasty! I did omit the pineapple so as not to risk mushy ham, per warnings in other reviews. I do agree with other reviewers that some items cook at different rates so you can’t just pop everything in together and have things done at exactly the same time.
I popped the carrots in the oven about 10 mins prior to everything else, then left the potatoes in about 10 mins longer than everything else to get them fully cooked. Biscuits came out a little dense, but tasty… probably my fault for over-handling the dough or something. Ultimately, everything was delicious and clean up was speedy! It was a nice variety of sweet, citrusy, savory, and salty flavors.Â
Overall this was delicious. I did not cook the asparagus or biscuits and I have a small oven so the rest of the food barely fit. Additionally, the carrots would have taken much longer to cook; I gave up and ate them undercooked. Next time I will cut them smaller. Keep in mind that this recipe doesn’t include prep time, so with that it took me about two hours in total. Ham and scalloped potatoes both turned out great. I did not have any issue with the pineapple making the ham mushy as some previous commenters noted. The ham steak is pre-cooked so I think that is why.
This looks delicious, but I second the comment about the fresh pineapple. Totally turned a previous Easter dinner into a disaster! It made the ham mushy and inedible. I thought it had something to do with the ham I purchased, until I read that fresh pineapple will do that with ham.
I make the potatoes from this recipe almost once a week. My family requests them all the time. So good!!!
Made this whole thing and it was all delicious.  The flavors go together well.  More prep time than stated and my carrots needed more cook time. Will definitely make again.  I usually tweak recipes as I go and I won’t tweak this one.  Thanks!
Could you make the potatoes dairy free somehow? Would love to know if you have any suggestions!
Are you sure about using fresh pineapple on ham? I tried this once and it dissolved my ham – leaving it mushy and inedible. I vowed to never try that again!Â
Delicious! I made the ham and asparagus as written – wouldn’t change a thing. Thank you!
I needed a bigger ham so I made your whole ham recipe and then made all of these sides!! Â Followed all recipes as listed and everything was perfect and easy!!
Will definitely make all of this next year when hopefully my whole family can  get together as a family!
Simple and delicious with little to clean up at the conclusion of Easter day. Thank you for the wonderful recipe – made as written, with the exceptions of substituting brown sugar for orange marmalade as I’d forgotten to purchase with my last shopping trip, and spooning more of the cream sauce on top of the potatoes so they were all coated. My husband LOVED the scalloped potatoes, and he typically is not a fan (but I am, and I’m the cook! )
I made the ham, pineapple, asparagus and carrots with their sauces and seasonings as listed, and we loved it. There are only two of us, so I skipped the biscuits, made potatoes separately in a casserole, and made smaller portions of all. My husband raved about the ham and pineapple, and he hates orange marmalade so I didn’t tell him it was there until he’d eaten it all – ha!
Easiest Easter dinner of my life! One skillet, 2 baking sheets, and a few measuring cups. Clean up was a breeze! And oh so GOOD!! My very picky eaters raved about the delicious flavors of each dish. They kept going back for more…all 4 of us had large portions and I still have ham for next day. I will definitely make this meal again!!
NOTE–prep time was more like 40 minutes, and the potatoes took a little longer to pre-cook. Start to finish first time through took 2 hours total. I would also take out asparagus sooner as carrots needed a little more time.
Simply delicious, thank you for helping to make our Easter dinner a great one!
The asparagus cooked faster than the carrots and so next time I use this recipe I’ll choose smaller carrots. I will also salt the potatoes better, but they were so creamy and perfectly done.
We fixed this for a 2-person Easter dinner and just about finished the whole thing between the 2 of us! Â It was SO GOOD, and simple to make and clean up. Â This recipe is definitely a keeper and something we will make again and again!
We had this for Easter dinner … absolutely delicious! I made the biscuits gluten free, and they were soooooo good. Tender and flaky, which I haven’t been able to get with gf biscuits. I will definitely be doing this again. There was enough for the three of us for today’s dinner and for tomorrow as well. <3 I WILL say, the prep time took me much longer, but it usually does!
I’m making this tonight – do you bake the ham and potatoes for a total of 20-22 minutes are an additional 20-22 minutes? Thanks!!
Excellent. But asparagus should be added to pan further in the cooking process. They will be soggy by the time the carrots get close to being soft.
I made this last night because my husband is a firefighter and is working today. It was SO good and SO easy to make! I bought pre-cored pineapple, and used my mandoline slicer for the potatoes! Even the biscuits were quick and easy to make! It was heavy on the herbs for me, I used dried and cut the measurement in half because of that but was still pretty heavy. So if you arent a fan of big herby flavors, just season to taste! Otherwise, it was a huge hit!
Made everything but the biscuits.  We absolutely loved it!  Thanks so much for the great recipes, it made my life a whole bunch easier and this is the only way I will make a ham dinner again unless I’m having a large group.  It was a perfect blend of flavours and really quick.  Highly recommend!
Such a great idea! I was worried about making a special Easter meal for our family of 4, and this is perfect! Can’t wait to try it out!
Quite hard ingredients but it would be an incredible recipe for Easter. I will try my best to try this recipe for my family. Hope they will enjoy it. Thanks for sharing.
Kerenza
This was an awesome, easy holiday dinner for two! My husband and I LOVED it. The only ingredient substitution I had to make was for the orange marmalade. I improvised with a few tablespoons of OJ and brown sugar warmed up and mixed together and it turned out great. Thanks for this idea!!
This is an absolutely brilliant idea and the timing is perfect!
Looks amazing! Can any of this be done ahead of time?Â