This easy and simple Honey Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potatoes Skillet is everything you want in a hearty, comforting Fall meal. This tasty one pan meal will be ready in about 30 minutes and you will love the flavors!
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If you took Autumn, coated it in honey butter and put in a skillet – this would be IT. This is one of the tastiest meals I’ve ever made and now I’m craving every single day.
Even the kids like this dish! That’s a winner when you’ve got picky little toddlers.
But nobody can resist that sweet and savory honey butter and tender sweet potatoes!
The best part is that this is a one-pan meal and it’s ready in about 30 minutes. In my book that’s a recipe for a perfect weeknight dinner.
To make it, you start by seasoning the chicken with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and dried herbs. Melt some butter in a skillet and stir in honey to make the honey butter sauce.
Brown the chicken in that crazy delicious honey butter and then scoot the chicken off to the sides to make room in the center of the skillet.
Add a little more honey and butter to the middle of the skillet and then toss in your sweet potatoes along with some pecans and dried cranberries.
Move the skillet to the oven and bake for about 15 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and the sweet potatoes are fork-tender.
That’s it! Top it off with some cracked black pepper and fresh thyme and serve. Your family will beg you to make this dish over and over again!
The great news? You won’t mind one bit because it’s such a cinch to whip up.
Honey Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potatoes Skillet
Ingredients
- 4 chicken thighs - or chicken breasts
- 5 tablespoons butter - divided
- 4 tablespoons honey - divided
- 1 teaspoon salt - or to taste
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper - or to taste
- 1 ½ teaspoons Italian blend seasoning - divided, (may sub about ½ teaspoon dried oregano + ¼ teaspoon each dried thyme, dried basil, dried parsley)
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 ½ pounds sweet potatoes - peeled and diced into 1-2 inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons dried cranberries
- ¼ cup pecan halves
- fresh thyme - for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Season chicken with salt and pepper, to taste, plus garlic powder and 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning.
- In a large skillet over medium heat melt 3 tablespoons butter. Stir in 2 tablespoons honey. Add chicken to pan and brown on each side for 3-4 minutes. Scoot chicken to the sides of the skillet.
- Add remaining butter and honey to the center of the skillet. Once butter is melted, add sweet potatoes and stir to coat in the honey-butter mixture. Sprinkle with remaining Italian seasoning, then add pecans and cranberries and stir to combine. Allow to cook for 3-4 minutes.
- Transfer pan to preheated oven and bake for 10-15 minutes until chicken is cooked through. Garnish with fresh thyme and cracked black pepper and serve.
Made this tonight and it is really delicious. You can’t go wrong with chicken cooked in butter!
But it is a little tricky getting the chicken and potatoes ready at the same time There are several factors like the thickness of your chicken pieces and the size of your potato chunks. Once you get the ratio/time right this recipe is great!
Great recipe,easy to follow and make , delicious results. Family want it again.
Made it, ate it, wonderful..easy and delish
Perfect recipe for the few things that I had on hand! I didn’t have Italian seasoning, so I just used the rosemary and thyme that I had with me and that was great 🙂
Just made the recipe – very easy and quick – only thing, the 10-15 minutes in the oven step is enough time if the chicken and (especially the) potatoes are almost done cooking when sauteing on the stove top – smells delicious – am about to eat it now 🙂
This recipe is a keeper!! Not too sweet and delicious! Will be making again. Thank you
Thank you for your review 🙂
Super easy, fast and tasty! Didn’t have pecans or cranberries but used Trail mix with sunflower and pumpkin seeds, cashews and currants and it worked really well. Thanks for the recipe.
Nicely done! Way to improvise! 🙂
Delicious! Subbed dried cherries for cranberries. Moist and flavorful
I love this recipe. I am cooking for a gang of girlfriends during a get- away. What suggestions for the Vegetable? Should we stick with a Salad to make it easy, or Green beans or Asparagus
Any of those would be great! 🙂
This is SO quick and easy. Chop the sweet potato, season the chicken, in the pan (more or less). Couldn’t be easier and from the first night I made this, it was added to our family favourites.
Doubled this and made it for eight last night. It is delicious but I could see that my sweet potatoes would take longer than 15 minutes in the oven even though I cut them into smallish cubes. I sautéed them first in the honey butter until they were just getting soft then I added the chicken to brown then the whole thing went into the oven for the 15 minutes. Everyone loved it and I’m currently forwarding the recipe to each of them, at their requests.
Sweet potatoes hard as rocks. Had to take out and microwave with wax paper over in glass pyrex to soften! And keep chicken in oven at 250 until potatoes done. I’d suggest precooking yams a little before adding to chicken pan!