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!
Are easy chicken recipes speaking your language? Try Three Cheese Stuffed Balsamic Chicken, Asparagus Stuffed Chicken, and Honey Lime Garlic Chicken.
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.
So tasty! Made this tonight for the first time and it turned out perfect! Put my own little spicy twist on it by sprinkling a couple shakes of smokey Chipotle powder and also some smoked paprika on both sides of the chicken before browning. It gave the honey butter sauce a little smokey spicy Kick. It was sweet and spicy PERFECTION!
Rebecca- great thinking! That sounds delicious. I may have to give that a try next time I make this recipe! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for posting such a great-tasting, versatile recipe! I’m looking forward to all the different ways I can use this over the winter. I’m definitely going to try a combo of sweet potatoes, parsnips and carrots later this fall, I bet they’ll taste Amazing roasted with this honey butter sauce and herbs!
This was easy to make,i didn’t have the cranberries or pecans so I omitted them. My son has a nut allergy anyway.
I used a little turmeric on the chicken as well.
Cast iron skillets are awesome, yummy recipe! I will be making it again.
Brittany- I am glad to hear that it turned out well without any cranberries! Thanks for your sharing your feedback!! 🙂
I Made this for my wife and daughter tonight and it is their new flavorite!
Not sure if you meant to save flavorite- but that might be my new favorite word! 😉 Happy to hear that you knocked this one out of the park! Thanks, Steve!
Can you provide nutrition facts? I’m interested mostly in carbs and calories
You can find this information easily by using My Fitness Pal. They have an awesome tool where you can input any recipe URL into and it will generate the information you are looking for for any of my recipes on my site as well as any others you need on the internet!
Usually sweet potatoes take a long time to cook in oven. How small do you cut them up
Dice them into 1-2 inch pieces!