Sheet-Pan Chicken With Potatoes, Arugula and Garlic Yogurt Recipe (2024)

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AlisonK

Very good. Had to substitute spinach for arugula and am eager to try when I have arugula. Otherwise all worked well according to the recipe. I have a tip for the dill: you can freeze fresh dill. Just snip it as you would for a recipe and spread on a sheet of plastic wrap, with wide margins. Roll the plastic up like a jelly roll and close the ends with twist ties. It's easy to remove just what you need for a dish. It's almost as good as fresh and certainly better than dried.

LeslieMac

Fantastic! I double up on the chicken, using skinless/boneless breasts, so I have leftovers to throw into pasta, salads, tacos throughout the week. I also use baby spinach in place of arugula. Throw it UNDER the chicken & potatoes after you take the pan out of the oven and it just wilts and absorbs the marinade and chicken juices. Mmm.

Alexandra Lightning

Have made this wonderful recipe many times. I always seem to find another little tweak for it every time I make it. One thing that's good is to mix about a tablespoon of chopped dill into the garlic yogurt sauce and add a good squeeze of lemon juice. I always use Greek yogurt because there is no reason not to that I can discern, and it's the only kind of yogurt I have at hand. I serve this yogurt/garlic/dill sauce on the side rather than spoon it over the crispy chicken skin.

Kathy

Would only marinate chicken overnight, not the potatoes. They turned brown when exposed to air.
Started potatoes 10 mins before chicken and they were nice and crispy. Put the leeks on top for last 20 mins and they didn't burn like some others reported.
Dish on whole was highly praised and delicious

Jane

I have made this dish twice, with excellent results both times. However, on the second occasion I made some adjustments: I used a combination of skinless, boneless breasts and thighs. I used medium potatoes, and cut them into wedges (eighths), which made it easy to arrange the potatoes around the chicken. (The wedges also crisped and browned nicely, which was harder to achieve with potato slices.) And I added the dill and lemon juice to the garlicky yogurt. Easy, delicious, impressive--a winner!

Sally

Why not Greek yogurt, Melissa?

Brian Abelson

Sublime! I substituted a baking sheet for a sheet pan. The lack of a ridge on the sheet meant that oil dripped to the bottom of the oven, causing a grease fire which I extinguished with 2.5 to 3 cups of water (this amount may vary based on the size of your oven and the intensity of the fire). I found that the fire added a delightful smokiness to the potatoes while the water used to extinguish it created steam in the oven, resulting in deliciously moist chicken. Would recommend!

not being dramatic

How do I say this without being dramatic...

This is the best dinner I've ever made. I cook frequently, I consider it a hobby. This meal was simple, healthy, and so incredibly tasty. I'd eat this every night of my life.

Kevin Osinski

Loved it, but proportions were strange. 1 1/2 lb bone-in chicken for 4 servings? I used 4 leg-thighs, which came to something over 3 lb. I used 12 oz of arugula and spread it as a serving bed for the potatoes, leeks and chicken. The pan drippings made a nice dressing for the greens.

The yogurt sauce could also be doubled or tripled. 1/3 cup over 4 servings is only one heaping tbsp each. I added some dill to the sauce.

With 2 tbsp of harissa this was quite spicy, but we loved it.

Tammy

Great recipe. First time I scattered the arugula over but that created some pretty lackluster arugula the next day when I re-heated the dish. Next time I put the hot chicken and potatoes on top of room temperature arugula and we had perfectly wilted greens, and no soggy left over greens. .

Liz

Excellent. Served it for dinner guests. I used six chicken thighs and a few more potatoes, so increased proportions of marinade and sauce accordingly. Based on all the comments, I 1) divided the recipe between two sheet pans for nice browning and crisping, 2) added the leeks when there were about 15 minutes left, 3) added some dill and lemon juice to the delicious yogurt sauce (perfect accompaniment), 4) served the chicken and potatoes on top of the arugula.

AEC

I used Greek yogurt because it's what I had on hand. However, I whisked a few tablespoons of milk into the Greek yogurt to thin it out. With the addition of the milk, the yogurt now has the right consistency of what the recipe requires.

Melissa

all I had in the refrig were boneless, skinless breasts, so covered the pan for the first 20 minutes ~ oh my were they moist and tasty. Everyone loved them. Next time will use thighs for an even tastier meal. We used much more yougurt, garlic and arugula, just because, and chopped the garlic ~ grating it was just too odd. An excellent meal!

Sarah S

I used boneless thighs and drumsticks and doubled the recipe, and used a mixture of cubed yukon golds and halved baby red potatoes. I substituted sriracha for harissa, served chicken and potatoes over a bed of arugula with lemon juice squeezed on it, and incorporated the dill into the garlic yogurt sauce. This dish was easy and amazing. My whole family declared worthy of a once a week dinner.

Sarah

I had only a harissa spice blend from the excellent World Spice here in Seattle. I tossed a couple of tablespoons of that with some kosher salt over the chicken thighs in the morning and let them dry out in the fridge all day. I think the dry spices plus the drying out in the fridge made the chicken skin extra crispy. Also aggressively spacing the ingredients in the sheet pan. I used two to ensure crisping and browning. This is a perfect recipe. We all loved it.

Pam Pappano

This was delicious! I used boneless, skin on chicken thighs and drumsticks. My son doen't like yogurt, so I used greek yogurt, served on the side. Great recipe!

Jessica

Delicious! This recipe got raves from everyone who ate it. I used sriracha, boneless skinless breasts and baby spinach as substitutions. I took the suggestion of some other readers and put the baby spinach under the chicken at the end, also mixed the lemon and dill directly into the yogurt (served on the side), and put the potatoes in at the end of the marinade. I used tiny little new potatoes, so did not need to slice or wedge -- perfect!

marci

This was a lovely symphony of textures & flavors I would’ve never thought to combine. Made exactly as the recipe requested except only had Greek yoghurt (but when dolluped on the thighs hot out of the oven, it softens up just fine).Got better & better with each bite! A keeper!

jval

Picky family actually ate chicken! Needed way more than 1.5 pounds, though. Made 6 thighs. Easily could have eaten 8. Forgot the Harissa sauce so did a rub of garlic powder and chili powder with olive oil. Cook the full 45-50 minutes.

Vanessa

We loved this! My tweaks based on what i had on hand:- used skinless, boneless thighs- used mexican crema instead of yogurt- substituted a large sweet potato for the yukon, sliced in discs and baked for 10 minutes first. Then, added chicken for additional 20 minutes.- Used one large leek, which was plenty, added the leek with 15 minutes left of baking.- finished with a broil for 3 minutes.- plated on spinach drizzled with olive oil and lemon juice.- garnished with chopped dill and chives

peg

Made mostly according to recipe and came out great. Was afraid that it might be too hot with the amount of Sriracha but was just right. The yogurt sauce added a nice freshness and even not food-adventurous partner liked it. Subbed spinach for arugula, added leeks (overwintered in my garden!!) for last 15 min and thinned Greek yogurt with lemon juice as suggested. Easy and delicious!

Alan

Made this last night, wonderful

siehomme

I'm all in with this recipe. It takes my humble chicken-olive oil-potatoes-garlic sheet pan meal and elevates it without that much more work. The easy garlic sauce is the chef's kiss of the dish. Used gochujang instead of harissa because the tub was staring at me, bereft, from the refrigerator shelf. I heated the sheet pan before adding the potatoes (put in the potatoes 10 minutes before, thanks all) and they got nicely crispy. Also followed others in putting in the leeks 15 minutes before.

Arantxa

This was a bit spicy for me so I mixed a touch of homemade cranberry sauce to the yoghurt mixture. Amazing

sunny

Great Flavor and a breeze to make.I used 1/2 Sriracha and 1/2 Red’s hot sauce. Half way through the cooking I added broccoli and scallions with a little EVOO to the pan for the final few minutes of cooking! I’ll make it again and again.

mcooks

Also, only marinated 30 min

Diane

Glad that the Times highlighted this recipe recently as I had forgotten about it. We use shallots instead of leeks and amp up the spices with more garlic and dill in the yogurt dressing. Chili garlic sauce works well if you’re out of harissa. Shaved cucumbers and castelvetrano olives with the arugula are nice also.

Kathleen

Absolutely delicious. I used skinless thighs and sliced the leeks to about half an inch thick, otherwise as written! Loved it!

mgh

This was divine, but I took liberties: marinated only chicken overnight, tossed potatoes with oil and marinade before roasting with chicken thighs; was restricted to my countertop toaster oven so divided onto two quarter sheet pans which were too small for the leeks; sauteed them with the pan drippings once chicken was done, stirred arugula in just before serving. All came together beautifully. Another Melissa wonder feast. Yum!

Jenny

I only had Greek yogurt and boneless skinless chicken thighs, and I accidentally put the leeks in right in the beginning of cook time, but despite those errors this was an amazing dish.

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