Chicken and sweet potato traybake
This family favourite is packed with nutrient-rich vegetables and bags of flavour. Perfect for a midweek dinner.
- 500g sweet potatoes
- 6 boneless chicken thigh fillets
- 160g curly kale
- 4 carrots
- 2 red onions
- 8 garlic cloves
- 150ml chicken stock
- 2 lemons
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp dried rosemary
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 ½ tbsp olive oil
Preheat your oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas mark 6 and prep your meat and vegetables!
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Peel and chop your sweet potatoes into 2cm chunks.
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Peel and vertically slice the carrots into chunky batons.
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Wash and chop your broccoli into small florets.
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Wash the kale.
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Wash and chop one of the lemons into wedges and juice the other lemon.
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Peel and cut the onion into wedges.
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Finally, cut each chicken fillet in half.
Put the sweet potatoes, onions, broccoli, carrots and garlic on a large roasting tray. Sprinkle over the herbs and season. Drizzle over 1 tbsp of oil and toss everything together.
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Spread out the veg with enough space to breathe, this helps them roast leaving the inside sweet and the outside slightly crisp.
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Pop in the oven and cook for 15 minutes.
Take the tray out of the oven and shake the veg up.Â
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Add the chicken and drizzle over the rest of the olive oil, lemon juice and paprika.
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Cook in the oven for another 15 minutes.
Pour over the chicken stock and pop back in the oven.
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After 8 minutes, take the tray out the oven and add the kale, drizzling over oil and salt.Â
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Cook for the remaining 12 minutes.
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Take the traybake out of the oven and serve with lemon wedges.
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