16 Easy One-Pan Recipes For The Days You’re Running On Empty

If you’re trying to juggle working from home, teaching from home or just being at home for what feels like 100 years during the pandemic, you may be suffering from cooking burnout. It’s likely you can’t muster the time, resources or energy to make a meal from scratch when it’s so much easier to just rip open a bag of Doritos and collapse on the couch.

But it’d be a shame to miss out on all the home-cooked food that autumn has to offer, because now’s the perfect time to turn on the oven and fill your house with all kinds of aromas: roasting chicken, sizzling potatoes, bubbling cheese.

If you don’t think you have the energy for that, you need the 16 sheet pan recipes we’ve gathered below. The idea behind sheet pan meals is that you chop up your ingredients, toss them onto the sheet pan and pop them in the oven. When it comes out, dinner is ready and you only have to wash that one sheet pan.

Check out some of our favourites below. There are even soups you can make on a sheet pan (you just toss the ingredients into a blender after they’ve been cooked). We promise, they don’t require that much more work than ordering takeout (and waiting for it, which is truly the hardest part).

Sheet Pan Lemon Rosemary Chicken from Damn Delicious

1. Sheet Pan Lemon Rosemary Chicken

Sheet Pan Lemon Rosemary Chicken from Damn DeliciousDamn Delicious

Fall Nourish Buddha Bowl from Jessica in the Kitchen

2. Fall Nourish Buddha Bowl (All on a Sheet Pan)

Fall Nourish Buddha Bowl from Jessica in the KitchenJessica in the Kitchen

Roasted Sweet Potato Soup from Jessica in the Kitchen

3. Roasted Sweet Potato Soup (Easy Sheet Pan Soup!)

Roasted Sweet Potato Soup from Jessica in the KitchenJessica in the Kitchen

Aussie Lamb Sheet Pan Dinner from This Worthey Life

4. Aussie Lamb Sheet Pan Dinner

Aussie Lamb Sheet Pan Dinner from This Worthey LifeThis Worthey Life

Meatloaf and Potatoes Sheet Pan Dinner from Completely Delicious

5. Meatloaf and Potatoes Sheet Pan Dinner

Meatloaf and Potatoes Sheet Pan Dinner from Completely DeliciousCompletely Delicious

Sheet Pan Pork Chop Bake from Damn Delicious

6. Sheet Pan Pork Chop Bake

Sheet Pan Pork Chop Bake from Damn DeliciousDamn Delicious

Sheet Pan Quesadillas from Whisk It Real Gud

7. Sheet Pan Quesadillas

Sheet Pan Quesadillas from Whisk It Real GudWhisk It Real Gud

Sheet Pan Steak and Fries from Damn Delicious

8. Sheet Pan Steak and Fries

Sheet Pan Steak and Fries from Damn DeliciousDamn Delicious

Detroit-Style Pepperoni and Pickled Pepper Sheet Pan Pizza from Love and Olive Oil

9. Detroit-Style Pepperoni and Pickled Pepper Sheet Pan Pizza

Detroit-Style Pepperoni and Pickled Pepper Sheet Pan Pizza from Love and Olive OilLove and Olive Oil

Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas

10. Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas

Sheet Pan Chicken FajitasDamn Delicious

One-Pan Maple Teriyaki Tofu & Veggies from Sweet Potato Soul

11. One-Pan Maple Teriyaki Tofu & Veggies

One-Pan Maple Teriyaki Tofu & Veggies from Sweet Potato SoulSweet Potato Soul

Teriyaki Glazed Salmon from First and Full

12. Teriyaki Glazed Salmon

Teriyaki Glazed Salmon from First and FullFirst and Full

Chicken and Vegetables Sheet Pan Dinner from This Worthey Life

13. Chicken and Vegetables Sheet Pan Dinner

Chicken and Vegetables Sheet Pan Dinner from This Worthey LifeThis Worthey Life

Sheet Pan Garlic Herb Salmon, Lobster and Veggies from Orchids + Sweet Tea

14. Sheet Pan Garlic Herb Salmon, Lobster and Veggies

Sheet Pan Garlic Herb Salmon, Lobster and Veggies from Orchids + Sweet TeaOrchids + Sweet Tea

Sheet Pan Buffalo Chicken Nachos from Orchids + Sweet Tea

15. Sheet Pan Buffalo Chicken Nachos

Sheet Pan Buffalo Chicken Nachos from Orchids + Sweet TeaOrchids + Sweet Tea

Sheet Pan Garlic Butter Tilapia from Damn Delicious

16. Sheet Pan Garlic Butter Tilapia

Sheet Pan Garlic Butter Tilapia from Damn DeliciousDamn Delicious