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This week’s featured dinner recipe is a simple one pan meal that’s guaranteed to impress you with incredible unique flavors, plus add a healthy dose of veggies & protein. Meet my sheet pan Moroccan chicken with sweet potatoes and cauliflower infused with cinnamon, cumin and turmeric spices then drizzled with a crazy good zesty feta dressing plus the addition of pistachios, cherries and a little cilantro for freshness.
This meal is HELLA FLAVORFUL and yes, only takes about 45 minutes from start to finish!
Ingredients in this healthy sheet pan Moroccan chicken
The theme of this gorgeous sheet pan Moroccan-spiced chicken is flavor and texture. You’ll find tender, crunchy veggies, cozy, warming spices, fun garnishes, and a drizzle of creamy feta sauce to bring everything together. Here’s what you’ll need to make this recipe:
- Chicken: I prefer using boneless skinless chicken thighs in this sheet pan dinner because they’re extra juicy and soak up all of the flavors well. Feel free to use chicken breasts if you’d like.
- Veggies: we’re roasting up the chicken with sweet potato, cauliflower, carrots, and onion.
- Spices: this dish gets a handful of Moroccan-inspired spices from cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, garlic powder & cayenne pepper.
- Garnishes: I love to top the meal with dried cherries, fresh cilantro, and roasted pistachios.
- For the sauce: we’re using my famous Creamy Feta Yogurt Dressingfor a delicious drizzle, made from greek yogurt, garlic, feta crumbles, fresh lemon juice, a little water, salt & pepper.
With each bite you’ll get flavorful chicken & veggies, sweetness from dried cherries, a little crunch from roasted salty pistachios and a creamy, cooling finish with the feta yogurt sauce. SERIOUSLY SO FREAKING GOOD YOU GUYS.
Customize your Moroccan-spiced chicken meal
With all of the beautiful textures and flavors, this recipe is easy to customize to your taste preferences! Here are some suggestions:
- To make vegetarian: try swapping the chicken for extra firm, cubed tofu! You can use the same spice mixture and bake it with the veggies.
- For the dried fruit: dried apricots, chopped Medjool dates, or golden raisins would also be delicious.
- For the nuts: feel free to omit to keep the dish nut free, or swap the pistachios for roasted chopped almonds.
How to meal prep this easy Moroccan sheet pan chicken
- After cooking everything according to the instructions, allow your chicken and veggies to cool completely and equally divide everything into 4 separate glass meal prep containers. If you’d like you could also add quinoa, chickpeas, couscous or cauliflower rice!
- Feel free to add the dried cherries, cilantro and pistachios, but I’d recommend leaving off the feta yogurt sauce until you’re ready to serve. You can store the sauce in a container like this one and simply add a bit more water, as needed, before using it.
- Store your meal prep containers in the refrigerator for up to 4 days and enjoy a healthy lunch or dinner all week long.
More sides to serve with these baked Moroccan chicken thighs
This recipe not only makes and incredible, filling dinner for 4 (or meal prep dinner for 1-2!) but it’s also a great meal to feed more people with additional sides. Here are a few that would be wonderful:
- Caramelized Garlic Carrots with Spicy Cilantro Yogurt Sauce
- The Best Garlic Bread You’ll Ever Eat
- Crispy Smashed Potatoes
- One Pot Moroccan Chickpea Quinoa Salad
- Vegan Curried Broccoli Chickpea Salad
Check out all of my side dish recipes here.
More one pan meals you’ll love
- One Pan Creamy Thai-Inspired Peanut Chicken Couscous
- One Pan Tandoori Chicken with Spiced Coconut Rice
- Juicy Turkey Meatballs in Tomato Basil Sauce with Burrata
- Sheet Pan Roasted Veggie Tacos (with yummy sauce options!)
- Sheet Pan Kickin’ Curry Honey Mustard Chicken & Veggies
Get all of my one pan meals here!
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125 Ridiculously Good For You, Sometimes Indulgent, and Absolutely Never Boring Recipes for Every Meal of the Day
Sheet Pan Moroccan Chicken with Sweet Potatoes & Cauliflower
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1 large sweet potato, cut into ½ inch cubes (about 2 cups cubed sweet potatoes)
- 2 cups small cauliflower florets (from about half a head of cauliflower)
- 1 yellow onion, cut into chunks
- 3 large carrots, sliced into ½ inch thick chunks (or use 6 small heirloom rainbow carrots)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground turmeric
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Lots of freshly ground black pepper
- To garnish:
- ⅓ cup unsweetened dried cherries (or dried cranberries)
- ¼ cup diced cilantro
- ¼ cup chopped roasted pistachios (or sub roasted chopped almonds)
- For the feta yogurt sauce:
- 1 large garlic clove
- 1/3 cup plain greek yogurt (whole milk or 2%)
- 1/4 cup feta crumbles
- ½ tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon water, to thin
- Freshly ground salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet or two small baking sheets with parchment paper or foil. Set aside.
- Add chicken thighs, sweet potato cubes, cauliflower, onion chunks, carrot chunks into a large bowl. Add in olive oil, turmeric, cinnamon, cumin, garlic powder, cayenne pepper and salt and pepper. Use clean hands to toss all of the ingredients together until well combined and spices evenly coat chicken and veggies. Pour onto prepared baking sheet (or evenly divide between two baking sheets.) You’ll want to group the vegetables as best as possible: carrots in one section, chicken in one section, cauliflower in one section and sweet potatoes and onions in one section (as indicated in the photos). Bake for 25-35 minutes, rotating the pan(s) and stirring vegetables halfway through to encourage even cooking. You’ll know it’s done when the carrots and sweet potatoes are fork tender.
- While the meal is cooking, you can make the feta yogurt sauce by adding the garlic, yogurt, feta, lemon juice and water to a food processor; process until smooth. Add a bit of salt and pepper to taste and process once more. Set aside until ready to serve.
- Once chicken and veggies are done cooking, remove from oven and immediately sprinkle dried cherries, cilantro and pistachios on top. You can either drizzle the feta yogurt sauce on top of the sheet pan meal or serve it on the side for people to enjoy as they so choose. Serves 4.
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Recipe by: Monique Volz // Ambitious Kitchen | Photography by: Eat Love Eats
That was delicious! Added a few more spices, just my individual flavor. But, damn, I loved it. I don’t say that often. Thank you!
Amazing! So glad you enjoyed 🙂
Hi! I haven’t had a chance to cook this yet but it looks incredible. I want to cook it for friends I am going to visit soon, but they don’t have a blender or food processor. What would you suggest regarding the feta yogurt sauce? Can you imagine a way to make something similar that would complement this dish? Many thanks for any suggestions 🙂
Hi! Feel free to sprinkle feta all over this meal and it will be just as delicious 🙂
My go to sheet pan dinner. I can get this meal prepped with a toddler on my hip, and she will eat it!!
Amazing! Glad she loves it, too!
LOVE this recipe!! Super flavorful and it freezes so well! You can’t even tell it was previously frozen once you unthaw and reheat it— highly recommend!
One question, how do you recommend freezing the sauce? Can it be frozen separate from the chicken and veggies?
Absolutely! You could try freezing it separately, but I’d recommend making it fresh when you’re ready to serve as I’m afraid it will separate when thawed.
I’d give this sheet pan Moroccan chicken a solid 5/5 ⭐—so flavorful, perfectly spiced, and super easy to make. A delicious recipe that feels special but effortless.
Thank you!
i made this recipe yesterday Very flavorful and easy. The only thing is that there are way too many vegetables to fit into one pan i made chicken on separate pan
Perfect! Yes, feel free to separate them if they don’t all fit 🙂
Yes!! This meal was FANTASTIC! It turned out great with naan. Definitely will make this again and again!
So glad you loved it!!
Fantastic!! I loved the spice combination, it was complex and so yummy! I didn’t have any get for the sauce so I made a honey lemon tahini sauce to give it some tang. Definitely want to try the yogurt feta sauce next time.
That sauce sounds amazing! Glad you loved this one!
We loved this! Definitely going onto the regular playlist. So easy to just cook everything together and drizzle over the sauce. Leftovers the next night were just as good. Looked a bit special and tasted great. I added a can of chickpeas. You could add this before or after the roasting. I also want to experiment next time with tahini yogurt sauce. I chucked the leftover feta pieces on top of the vegies for the second time around, which was also good.
Amazing! This one’s so great for customizing 🙂 Glad it was a hit!
We LOVE this recipe. It’s been a staple in our family for years now. We always make this for meal trains and people love it! What do you think about freezing and reheating? I wanted to prepare this in advance for another meal train but didn’t know the best way to go about it
So happy to hear that! And yes, just be sure to cool it completely, then freeze the chicken & veggies together without the sauce and toppings. Thaw and reheat before enjoying!
My husband and I love this recipe. We cook as is and we make a risotto as a grain to pair with. Absolutely delicious.
That sounds amazing!!
The flavors of this are incredible! Made it for my family including our son who enjoyed the flavors of Morocco in Morocco last year and he loved it! Super simple to make and just fantastic!
Amazing! Glad he loved it!
This was SO good!! I forgot to get Greek yogurt, so I squeezed lemon over the top after cooking and ate with feta. We have nut allergies, so didn’t add pistachios. Will be making again soon!
Love that! Perfect dinner!!
I made this last night exactly as the recipe recommends and it was a huge hit. Fantastic flavor and combination of textures. This is definitely a keeper!
So happy to hear that!
This was absolutely fantastic! The flavour of everything was so good and we used the leftover chicken to make open faced chicken salad sandwiches (topped with the extra toppings & arugula). I can see this chicken being delicious on pizza or a cold salad.
Few tiny changes: Added broccoli to the veg mix. Used chicken breasts cut into 3” sections. Mixed the chicken with the seasonings separately and just cooked them at one end of the pan for about 20 min only (to 165F internal temp). The fat yogurt sauce was great but I was a little heavy handed with the garlic (2 cloves).
All in all, a dish that will definitely be on our rotation!
Amazing! So glad you enjoyed!
I thought this recipe is pleasing to the eye and it tastes delicious. My husband wasn’t so impressed. He’s more of a person that just likes typical American food.
I’m glad you got to enjoy it!
I followed the recipe exactly. No one in my family liked it and it was thrown away.
Sorry to hear that! Was it the flavor? Ingredients? Textures? This is a hugely popular dinner on my site, but everyone’s taste preferences are different!
Oh my goodness, this recipe was excellent! I normally don’t leave reviews, but it was 10/10. This will definitely be a staple on my dinner rotation.
So glad you loved it!
OMG if I could give this a 10 I would! So good and the flavors are amazing! I did use chicken breast cause that’s what I had and I use dried cranberries and almonds cause that’s what I had but everything else the same. Definitely a keeper!
Perfect!! So happy you love this one!
This was such an easy and flavorful meal! I’m very excited to eat the leftovers this week and will be adding this into my dinner rotation!
So glad you enjoyed!
This was delicious and flavorful. I subbed out raisins for the cherries and roasted almonds for the pistachios. It was wonderful. The dish had a nice spice to it, and the feta yogurt sauce was a nice, cool contrast. I will definitely make this again!
Perfect! So glad you enjoyed!
Family favorite! Love the versatility and flavor balance in this meal. I left out the turmeric purely because I find it doesn’t mix with clothes + messy babies/toddlers (mom life) and added some paprika instead. For the sauce, used goat cheese in replace of feta since it’s what I had on hand; loved it!!
Perfect! So glad everyone loved it!
This was really tasty! The sauce made the dish, so don’t skip it. I often cook with chicken breast and I’m so glad I didn’t here; using dark meat for this made it so tasty and kept the meat moist. I roasted the chicken separately from the veggies and am glad because it took my drumsticks longer to cook through. While the veggies for this take a bit of time to prep, the dish is worth it and I’ll make it again.
Perfect! So glad you enjoyed!
This is a winner!! I didn’t make the sauce or add any of the toppings, purely because I didn’t have the ingredients. I imagine with those it would have been even better. I also didn’t have cayenne pepper, but it was still yum! Thank you!
One of our fav dinners, too! Glad you enjoyed!
Made this last night and boy did it surprise me how fricken good this was. My roommate said I could serve it in a restaurant it was that good and my boyfriend inhaled it and we all were just awestruck at how well everything worked together. I love a good sheet pan dinner and all the ambitious kitchen recipes just make me feel like such a competent cook yet I’m never overwhelmed in the kitchen. Thank you for another killer recipe that I’m going to pass along to lots of friends!
Amazing!! So happy you’re finding winners here 🙂
So delicious! Everyone in the family loved it. I doubled the spice marinade and the yogurt sauce and it was perfect.
So, so good!
Amazing! Happy to hear that 🙂
So delicious! Everyone in the family loved it. I doubled the spice marinade and the yogurt sauce and it was perfect. So, so good!
I would not call this easy because of the cleanup and the new for a BIG mixing bowl, which I do not own. Also, lots of chopping to do. But man, is it delicious exactly as is! Recipe saved.
I’m glad you still loved it! It will be easier the next time you make it, too 🙂 practice makes perfect!
Can I sub chicken breasts?
Yes absolutely!
10 out of 10! Says my family! This was a huge family hit. Delicious and very flavorful! I did asparagus in stead of cauliflower and did both chicken and tofu. Exceptional!
Amazing! Love that idea!
Holy cow, this is amazing. I cut the cinnamon down to 1 teaspoon based on other reviews. Probably would have been fine with all of it. I cooked the veggies first, then cooked the boneless chicken breasts. cooked the chicken breasts at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Served it over farro that was cooked in vegetable broth. don’t skip any of the ingredients. Everything works so well together. I used the apricots here. The sauce is a must. I particularly like the cilantro in it. I tossed a bit more olive in it. I would probably double the yogurt feta sauce next time. Thanks so much.
Perfect! So glad you enjoyed 🙂
Super easy and delicious! Makes my kitchen smell so good.
Loved this so much. Question can I use skinned Chicken thighs?
I’m so glad! Yes, absolutely!
Made this tonight and it was a big hit! I mixed the chicken separately from the veggies but other than that, followed the recipe exactly. Didn’t have any of the garnishes, or yogurt for the sauce, so just squeezed lemon juice over the meal and it was delicious. Time in oven was exactly perfect – I did heat up the tray first and I didn’t bother with foil. Thank you for a super quick, healthy meal!
Perfect! So glad you enjoyed.
We love this recipe so much! I’m making for a friend and wondering if it can save in the freezer either before or after cooking?
So happy to hear that! Yes, feel free to freeze before or after cooking (just be sure to freeze without the garnishes and sauce).
Wondering how you would group the veggies into separate groups on the sheet pan when everything is mixed together at the start in a bowl. It seems each different ingredient would have to be done separately. Am I missing something? Can it all be tossed and spread on the baking sheet? Thanks, Jan
Hi! Feel free to bake everything mixed if you’d like 🙂
Made last night and absolutely loved it! Not a combination of spices and garnishes I normally use so love when I’m introduced to new combos that work THIS well! So glad I stumbled across this healthy gem, and will 1000% be saving it to make again! Thank you!
I’m so glad you found this one! One of our fav dinners 🙂
Absolutely delicious and so easy! Made as written, except we subbed halved Brussels sprouts for cauliflower because that’s what we had on hand. The spice mix smells amazing while cooking, and the sauce really adds to the dish overall. Excellent recipe!
Perfect! One of our go-to dinners 🙂
I just made this and it was delicious! Everything tasted so great together. The only thing I left out was the cayenne since we have a little one.
Perfect! Glad it was a hit!