15 Quick and Easy Sheet-Pan Dinner Ideas

The sheet pan dinner is a beautiful concept. For those of us that are short on time or just love a good lazy man’s hack, sheet pans can get a whole meal cooked beautifully, in a completely hands-off manner. A little bit of prep is always required for great meals, but once it’s in the oven, you can focus on something else. 

Not sure where to start? Here are 15 recipes for cheap and easy sheet pan dinners. 

This is a breeze. Prep some fresh cilantro, chop an onion, and lay out some tortillas while the steak and veggies roast, and presto, you’ve got a fajita dinner. 

Recipe: Less With Laur

You may think you don’t know how to cook fish, but you’re wrong. It’s easy; you can bake this salmon in less than 15 minutes. 

Recipe: NYT Cooking

Salty-sweet fans will love this one, packed with delicious, baked pineapple. 

Recipe: The Menu Maid

No need to spend all day on a shrimp boil today. The sheet pan is taking care of that one, baby. 

Recipe: SkinnyTaste

Isabel Eats has some good stuff in this recipe, and you can bet your sweet bippy that the next time I make nachos (which is often, I’m afraid), I’ll be doing a double layer of chips. 

Recipe: Isabel Eats

You’ve got a whole barbecue’s worth of food in one fell swoop here. 

Recipe: Sweet Savory and Steph

Feeling like a steakhouse meal but don’t have a grill? You can get this going in a sheet pan too, but make sure you give your steak a bit of a sear on each side to lock in that crust. 

Recipe: Savory Nothings

Green beans are the only other veggie included here, but you can spruce that up easily. 

Recipe: The Real Food Dietitians

It’s a huge pain in the keester to fry meatballs one at a time, but to bake them all up on a sheet pan all at once? With a nice, even cook? That’s the ticket right there. 

Recipe: Jenn Eats Good

Kielbasa isn’t required of course, nor is tortellini. Those things are good though, and you came here for a recipe, so quite arguing with me about it already. 

Recipe: The Farm Style

Will baked chicken parm ever compare to proper, fried-and-then-broiled chicken parm? No, of course not. Almost no food can. But this is far less labor intensive and a whole lot healthier, so consider those two wins. 

Recipe: Olive & Mango

Another foolproof way to cook salmon? Cover it with veggies and rub it up with Greek spices like oregano, thyme, parsley, mint, and dill. 

Recipe: Food by Maria

Did you know you could legally make a mini meatloaf? I did not. These things are somewhere between a meatball and a burger patty, but a little looser, and full of my least favorite ingredient in the world, ketchup. You can nail the potatoes easily with a 25 minute cook. 

Recipe: Strawberry Blondie

It’s incredibly easy to mimic fried tofu by covering it with panko and baking it, so take advantage of that. 

Recipe: From My Bowl

If you think this sounds complicated, you’re in luck. It’s not. In fact, you may be able to assemble a makeshift shawarma seasoning without having to shop for anything additional, depending on how stocked your pantry is. If you’ve got cinnamon, turmeric, cumin, and cardamom, you’re perfect.  

Recipe: The Modern Proper

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