Yahoo Lifestyle 30 Foolproof Chicken and Potato Recipes for Quick and Easy Weeknight Dinners
So it's a weeknight and you're looking for something simple, healthy and delicious for dinner. Or maybe you're in the mood for an easy, yet impressive dinner for guests for a special occasion? Either way, you're in the right place! These 30 foolproof chicken and potatoes recipes are perfect for that hearty, well-balanced meal that everyone will love—and they're a cinch to make.
Whether you're scrolling for a super quick sheet pan meal, a creamy chicken and potato soup. or a flavorful chicken curry, this collection easy chicken and potato dinners includes the perfect recipe for you.
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Best Chicken and Potato Recipes
Trying to be more health conscious? You'll find lots of lean chicken breast and potato recipes here, along with plenty of veggies to round out the meal. Plus, this collection of healthy chicken and potato recipes has so many different kinds of flavors to inspire you, from spicy harissa chicken to creamy chicken and potato pasta, or even jalapeño popper chicken. Trust me, you'll have no shortage of enticing ways to enjoy a delicious and nourishing meal with these ideas.
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How Do I Make Chicken and Potatoes?
However you like! No matter how you like to cook your chicken and potato recipes—oven, air fryer, pressure cooker, or slow cooker—you'll find all those options here. We've also got plenty of chicken and potato casseroles that are comforting and so simple to put together, or sheet pan chicken dinners that are even easier!
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Can You Cook Raw Chicken and Potatoes Together?
Definitely! That's what makes these chicken and potato recipes so perfect for a weeknight meal. For many of them, you can toss the chicken, potatoes and other veggies in to cook all together and save so much time. Plus, your potatoes get the added flavor from the chicken juices. Just make sure that you check your chicken temperature in several places to ensure that it's cooked to 165°F. Then, enjoy your amazing chicken and potatoes meal with these simple recipes.
This recipe breathes new life into dinnertime favorites — in this case, boneless chicken breast and green beans — with a simple Peruvian flavors.
Get the recipe: Peruvian Roast Chicken and Potatoes
A smoky-sweet DIY barbecue sauce acts as both a marinade and a glaze at the end to help the chicken skin brown and crisp up deliciously.
Get the recipe: Sheet Pan BBQ Chicken Thighs With Sweet Potato Bake
This recipe, from New York Times columnist Melissa Clark’s new cookbook, Dinner: Changing the Game (Clarkson Potter), elevates the chicken-and-potatoes standby with spicy harissa and a drizzle of cool yogurt.
Get the recipe: Harissa Chicken With Leeks, Potatoes and Yogurt
There are those (unfortunate) times when we find ourselves not in France and longing for a comforting meal of roasted chicken and potatoes. We can’t replicate it, but we can come mightily close.
Get the recipe: French Market Roast Chicken With Potatoes
Balsamic vinegar, fresh rosemary and garlic add flavor to this quick and easy dish. Throw in your favorite seasonal vegetables and herbs.
Get the recipe: Chicken Baked With Red Onions, Potatoes and Rosemary
This Jamaican Curry Chicken recipe is a really rich, flavorful, and hearty stew filled with juicy chicken, wonderful aromatics, and filling elements such as carrots and potatoes.
Get the recipe: Curry Chicken
This Lemon Roast Chicken Dinner starts with fresh chicken that is highly seasoned and sprinkled with citrus flavor that’s roasted in delicious juices, onions and potatoes making this the easiest weeknight dinner!!
Get the recipe: Lemon Roast Chicken Dinner With Potatoes
Caprese Grilled Chicken with Herb Roasted Potatoes is a healthy chicken recipe with tons of flavor. It's quick, delicious, and easy to make!
Get the recipe: Caprese Grilled Chicken With Herb Roasted Potatoes
This curry-infused dish is perfect for a weeknight meal, especially for a hungry crowd. Tender chunks of chicken and sweet potatoes are seasoned with an array of fragrant spices and herbs drenched in a coconut cream sauce!
Get the recipe: Easy Chicken and Sweet Potato Curry With Coconut Milk
This super easy sheet pan dinner is full of flavor and perfect for a weeknight meal!
Get the recipe: Sheet Pan Chicken Thigh Dinner With Sweet Potatoes
Making dinner has never been easier! This Instant Pot chicken and potatoes makes for a compete meal! It is moist, delicious and easy to make, making it perfect for busy weeknight dinners.
Get the recipe: Honey Mustard Instant Pot Chicken Breast and Potatoes
Chicken lemon sheet pan dinner—the zesty lemon flavor combined with the garlic and honey just works well and makes a delicious and easy meal.
Get the recipe: Lemon Chicken Tray Bake
Slow Cooker Chicken and Potatoes makes an easy and delicious dinner. Made with juicy chicken, potatoes, veggies and cooked in a light gravy!
Get the recipe: Slow Cooker Chicken and Potatoes
Sheet Pan Harissa Chicken with Olives, Potatoes, and Feta Cheese is a delightful meal that is easy to whip up and ready in no time! Simply place all of your ingredients on one sheet pan, bake, and enjoy a flavorful, filling meal!
Get the recipe: Sheet Pan Harissa Chicken With Olives, Potatoes, and Feta Cheese
Crispy Chicken with Garlic and Rosemary is basted in lemon and love. Dotted with red potatoes, it is likely the juiciest, most succulent roast chicken you'll ever have.
Get the recipe: Crispy Chicken With Garlic and Rosemary
This pollo guisado is a delicious Mexican chicken stew that consists of drumsticks, potatoes and carrots simmered in a yummy tomato sauce.
Get the recipe: Pollo Guisado (Chicken Stew)
This cast iron spatchcock chicken is my favorite weeknight chicken staple! The meat is juicy, the skin is crispy and golden, and the lemon garlic pan sauce is perfect.
Get the recipe: Roast Spatchcock Chicken With Lemon Garlic Pan Sauce
If you like spice in your life, you will LOVE this jalapeno popper chicken with Cajun potatoes for dinner tonight. Chicken breasts are stuffed with a jalapeno and green chili cream cheese mixture then rolled in a crispy coated and baked.
Get the recipe: Jalapeño Popper Chicken With Cajun Potatoes
Instant Pot Chicken and Potatoes with Green Beans is a complete meal ready in minutes. It is loaded with flavor, comforting, and delicious. Try it for your next meal!
Get the recipe: Instant Pot Chicken and Potatoes With Green Beans
Pesto Roast Chicken with Potatoes and Carrots needs just one pan and 5 ingredients, yet it's packed with so much flavor! The veggies soak up all the pesto juices for an easy dinner the whole family will love.
Get the recipe: Pesto Roast Chicken With Potatoes and Carrots
Tender and juicy garlic herb spatchcock chicken with crispy baby potatoes is the perfect one-pan meal to feed the whole family.
Get the recipe: Spatchcock Roast Chicken and Potatoes
This soup is creamy, hearty, healthy, and feeds a crowd. The best part is that it's wrapped up in 30 minutes! What's not to love about that?!
Get the recipe: Chicken Potato Soup
This awesome mojo-marinated spatchcock chicken is roasted with potatoes and onions for a complete meal everyone will love.
Get the recipe: Sour Orange Garlic Mojo Butterflied Roast Chicken
This is a gorgeous, savory recipe inspired by classic French crepes with chicken, potato, cheese, and caramelized onion in delicate crepes.
Get the recipe: Crepes With Chicken and Potato
This Creamy Chicken & Potato Pasta combines chicken thigh meat, crispy potatoes and sliced mushrooms in a cream sauce with bowtie pasta.
Get the recipe: Creamy Chicken & Potato Pasta
Chicken, potatoes, bacon, broccoli and cheese—all combined in one delicious casserole is comfort food at it's finest.
Get the recipe: Ranch Chicken and Potato Casserole
I make this when I have some leftover Greek chicken, or sometimes I whip some up just to have these and then I make Greek fries!
Get the recipe: Greek Fries With Chicken
This Air Fryer chicken and potatoes is the easiest and tastiest weeknight dinner! Ready in under half an hour, this chicken dinner requires just a few simple ingredients but results in amazing flavors!
Get the recipe: Air Fryer Chicken and Potatoes
Healthy One-Pan Chicken Potato Gratin is a remake of the famous classic. We've snuck in extra veggies by replacing the traditional butter and flour heavy sauce for a rich and cheesy cauliflower sauce, then nestled in some crispy skinned chicken and kale for a delicious and easy to make dinner recipe.
Get the recipe: Healthy One-Pan Chicken Potato Gratin
An easy Buffalo Chicken Casserole Recipe you’ll love! Made with simple ingredients like potatoes & chicken in under an hour for an easy dinner. Quick, simple and delicious.
Get the recipe: Buffalo Chicken Casserole Recipe
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