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.

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…

Not actually a complete meal, as only two ounces of arugula is a garnish, not a salad. I reduced the chicken to a half pound, added a pound of broccoli, and replaced the yogurt with tahini. Making this dish vegetable forward makes it a complete meal.

At the last minute, discovered that my counted-on potatoes were not so good. No time to go to the market. But I had a Savoy cabbage. So I slided it, tossed it with oil, S&P, lemon zest and used it as a base for the chicken (a mix of boneless, skinless breasts and thighs). The cabbage caramelized beautifully, along with the leeks.A nice surprise!

I used boneless skin on legs and thighs, delicious!

I cannot use dairy in the sauce. Can anyone recommend a substitute? It seems like having a sauce is integral to this dish and just omitting it would detract too much. Thank you!

Just a super sheet pan meal all around. Thanks, Melissa.

Had only cashew yogurt...no problem, had only Gem lettuce, no problem, didn't have leeks just a vadalia onion, no problem! Fast, easy, delicious, thank you Melissa Clark!

This is a very simple dish and I am not surprised it has such rave reviews. And yet I messed up the potatoes by par boiling them in water with baking soda before tasting them. I roasted them separately but they were still over cooked and mushy (totally my fault). I was not familiar with harissa but I loved the kind I bought from citerella. I will try this again.

I made this toddler-friendly by taking a portion of the chicken and potatoes, subbing out the harissa for a little bit of smoked paprika to add more flavor. Used the same baking sheet, just portioned hers off as well. I kept the yogurt plain (I’m sure having the garlic would have been just fine but she was excited about eating straight from the cup). We all loved our variations!

I made this for the first time a few years ago. I've since served it for dinner parties, and weekday family meals. My husband calls it "dope chicken" and it is the only recipe that he and the kids request regularly.

Delicious! I agree with the person who noted that the amounts are off for 4 servings. I would double the potatoes and use 2 packages of chicken thighs (around 2.25 lbs.) Just for me when I did a trial run, I used 1/4 c. yogurt for the sauce and ate all of it. It was so good! I might throw in another leek too. It makes great leftovers heated in a foil topped dish. I plan to cook it again soon.

A crowd pleaser for sure. I use whole milk Bulgarian yogurt for the sauce. It's tangy tartness is a perfect topping to this meal.

Dinner party quality and weeknight easy. It's the best new recipe I have tried in quite a while.

This was delicious. I too had to substitute spinach for arugula, and I used Greek yogurt and it tastes just fine. There’s nothing you can do to stop me, Clark! In the future I would use a bit more of the marinade, maybe 1.5x the recipe proportions. More leeks and potatoes as well. But flavor-wise, it’s great. Highly recommend.

Delicious ... even when I misread the recipe and marinated the chicken and potatoes in harissa, cumin, 3 tablespoons oil AND the yoghurt and garlic.