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One Pan Honey Lemon Chicken Asparagus is THE ultimate sheet pan meal, perfect for meal preps or for lunch and dinner!
After proving how much we love lemon with our Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Garlic Cream Sauce and the Lemon Garlic Roast Chicken, we couldn’t stop there! This One Pan Honey Lemon Chicken is so easy to prepare, its a matter of throwing everything onto a baking sheet and letting the oven do the work for you!
Sheet Pan Chicken
There’s nothing better than only washing one pan! Honey Lemon Chicken is a family favourite, just like this Honey Lemon Garlic Chicken. We’ll cook any piece of chicken with Honey Lemon flavours. So, I wanted to turn that chicken recipe into a beautiful sheet pan meal; one lower in fat and perfect for meal preps to keep our New Years resolutions in tact.
The perfect flavour combination = Honey > Lemon > Garlic > Soy. Combined with the dietary benefits of asparagus.
Some Tips:
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- Use room temperature chicken where possible! They will cook more evenly than refrigerated or cold chicken breasts
- You can substitute chicken thighs if you don’t like breasts
- Don’t like asparagus? Replace them with green beans, broccoli, zucchini, or cauliflower!
- Serve with potatoes or rice. Use the sauce in the pan to drizzle over your chosen side dish
WATCH US MAKE IT RIGHT HERE!
FOR THE LEMON LOVERS:
Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Garlic Cream Sauce
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One Pan Honey Lemon Chicken Asparagus
Ingredients
- 1 spray cooking spray olive oil
- 4 chicken breasts boneless and skinless
- 1 pinch salt to season
- 1/3 cup lemon juice freshly squeezed
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon low sodium soy sauce optional for added flavour
- 1 tablespoon garlic finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons parsley fresh chopped, divided
- 1 teaspoon salt or more to your tastes
- ½ teaspoon cracked pepper to taste
- 4 asparagus 37-40 spears, woody ends removed
- 1 lemon sliced to garnish
Instructions
- Arrange oven shelf to the middle of your oven. Preheat oven 200°C | 400°F. Line a baking sheet with foil or parchment paper and spray with nonstick cooking oil spray. Arrange chicken on the sheet and season with salt; set aside.
- Combine together the lemon juice, honey, soy sauce, garlic, half of the parsley, salt and pepper. Pour three quarters of the honey lemon mixture over the chicken. Arrange the lemon slices over the top. Season with extra salt and pepper, if desired.
- Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through. Uncover, arrange the asparagus around the chicken. Pour the remaining honey lemon mixture over the asparagus; season the asparagus with salt and pepper. Return to the oven to grill or broil until the chicken is golden and the asparagus is cooked. Garnish with the remaining parsley.
- Serve with a side of rice or potatoes.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
My nine year old daughter is the pickiest of picky eaters, and she LOVED this. The sauce is divine. I love asparagus, but plan to try it with other veggies next time. Maybe some zucchini. Thank you for an excellent recipe that my daughter actually enjoyed!
I made this for two and didn’t adjust the marinade- so it was kind of poached. This make it really moist and lemony. I added the asparagus and cooked for another 10 minutes and served with roast chat potatoes. Easy as it all went in the oven. Fabulous!
Loved it! I used carrots and green beans – added the carrots 10 minutes before the chicken was close to done and the green beans 5 minutes before. I also added some olive oil over the veggies since I didn’t have enough sauce to go over it all. Served it over a bed of quinoa. Printed and saved – will definitely make it again.
Absolutely perfect! I don’t like asparagus but my family does but this recipe has definitely made me see what I’ve been missing. Even without all the fresh ingredients, this was an amazing meal. I’m elderly but when I saw this one pot recipe I knew I had to try it. Glad I did. I used chicken thighs ’cause that’s what I had. Will be trying more of your recipes. Thank you so very much.
I made this tonight with broccoli, squash, zucchini and asparagus!! My boyfriend loved it!
Absolutely dead easy, and totally delicious will definitely be making this again.
I didn’t have room for all the asparagus around the chicken so baked it in a separate pan – think it tasted even better for doing it that was because so much juice came out of the chicken.
Served it with vegetable rice, but would also be great with Couscous
Highly recommend as a quick and easy tasty meal.
Made this for myself tonight as a part of my meal prep. Came out BEAUTIFULLY! I melted butter in the foil lined pan before adding the chicken instead of using cooking spray. It came out juicy and DELICIOUS! Used a bit more lemon juice on the asparagus also. Great recipe and easy to make! Will be making this for my boyfriend soon!
Yum yum yum Karrigan! Your description made me hungry lol.