Here’s this week’s lineup! The feature this week isn’t a food, it’s a cooking method! We’re featuring Sheet Pan Meals!
Let’s review why sheet pan meals are so phenomenal:
- They’re ridiculously easy. The pan and the oven do all the work for you! Compared with sauteeing, there’s no need to hover nearby and stir. Just dump and go!
- Minimal clean up. With this recipe, the only prep dishes you’ll need to clean are the knife, cutting board, measuring cup, pan, and lifter. That’s FIVE measly dishes!
- They make eating veggies a treat. I don’t know why but roasting veggies just wasn’t a “thing” when I was a kid. I think if it had been, I would have been a lot more keen on eating them! Roasting veggies dampens the bitterness and brings out the sweetness locked deep down inside a veggie that you never knew was there!
SHEET PAN DINNER TIP: Don’t crowd your food! For faster cooking, and roastier veggies, it’s important to have good airflow around the food! I recently bought a larger sheetpan at Costco that’s the size of my whole oven, which allows me to cook a larger meal on the same pan!
If you don’t have a large pan, use two different sheet pans!
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This Week’s Lineup!
If you have an hour or two on the weekend to take some time to prep parts of your meals, then you can get dinner on the table so much faster during the week! Here are some meal prep ideas:
1. Chop your veggies
Chop your veggies and then place each meal’s worth of veggies in a ziploc bag.
Sheet Pan Pineapple Chicken Tacos with Cilantro Slaw: Chop the jalapeno, dice the red onion, shred the cabbage, and chop the cilantro.
Sheet Pan Ginger Beef & Veggies: Slice the carrots, broccoli, pepper, and onion.
Buffalo Chicken Noodle Bowl: Chop the cauliflower and celery. Shred the carrots.
Pesto Gnocchi: Slice the red onion and the zucchini. Dice the eggplant. Quarter the cherry tomatoes.
2. Prepare your sauces
Make the sauce and the cilantro slaw for the Pineapple Chicken Tacos. Make the batter and the sauce for the Sheet Pan Ginger Beef & Veggies. Prepare the sauce for the Buffalo Chicken Noodle Bowl.
3. Prepare your protein
Slice the beef, and place it in a sealed container in the fridge. Grill and slice the chicken breasts for the Buffalo Chicken Noodle Bowl.
Happy meal prepping!
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