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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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!

Why not Greek yogurt, Melissa?

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. .

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

I didn’t have potatoes so I used cauliflower I had on hand. Otherwise stuck to the recipe. Absolutely fantastic. Will make again and again.

Outstanding. Made more of the excellent sauce for chicken. Marinated for about 8 hours. Roasted potatoes 15 minutes before adding the chicken. Should add more leeks (doused in olive oil). Made 2 cups of yogurt and divided to add diced cukes to half for a salad.

So easy and delicious! I made this according to the recipe. Very tasty and a good idea to expand on.

I made this tonight with the suggested changes. I would like to serve this next week at a Seder at a friend’s home. Since we will arrive about 45mjn prior to dinner I’m not sure how to tune this recipe. Should I make it to completion and wRm up there? Any ideas? I don’t want it to be cold or overdone.

Question for people who used boneless, skinless thighs: did you adjust cooking time? Just wondering if I should cook for less time than is indicated. (I assume the recipe intends for bone-in things and drumsticks, but it is a little vague.)

Delicious! I had leftovers and warmed them up the next day with mixed with some scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese and more arugula for a big scramble, yoghurt sauce and Cholula on top, Excellent!

Holy cow. So good. I used Sriracha and russet potatoes in 1/4" slices. Boneless skinless chicken thighs. Baby spinach. Could make every week. My family devoured it.

Use 1/2 Harissa and 1/2 sriracha for marinade. Consider sweet potatoes instead. Rather than leeks (or in addition to) use a rough chop (3/8”) of sweet potatoes, carrots, and shallots.Use more garlic and add lemon juice to yoghurt.Plating: put chicken and whatnot on bed of arugula and generously drizzle yoghurt overall.

Use 6+ pieces of chicken, increase marinade amt by 1.5. Careful with the salt.

Amazing; made as directed except went a little crazy ( probably doubled) lemon zest and it was still beautiful. Thirty minutes of marinade at room temperature was perfect!

Used Chicken Breasts, chopped and greek yogurt, thinned with milk. Otherwise followed the recipe exactly and it was FANTASTIC!

I made this last night -- loved it. Instead of chicken thighs and legs, I used chicken wings from the gigantic Costco bag sitting in my freezer. It was great!

Use boneless chicken breasts or thighs, throw everything in at the same time, and cook for less overall time. Also, put chicken on spinach for extra veggies

The whole family loved this. I made it just as written-it looked marvelous coming out of the oven and tasted just as good! I served the sauce on the side. Highly recommend.

This was unsuspectingly amazing! I didn’t have harissa so used sriracha, and used boneless and skinless chicken thighs. I took the advice of others and used the arugula/dill mix as a bed of greens and placed the hot potatoes and chicken on top to wilt the greens. I saved the yogurt (used leftover tzatziki) as a sauce on the side rather than as a topper. Delicious! Next time would like to try it with harissa…