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30+ AIP and Paleo Easy Sheet Pan Dinners shares the best, easiest, most delicious and prettiest collections of one-pan dinners for the Autoimmune Protocol and Paleo diets. No dairy, eggs, nuts, nightshades or other inflammatory ingredients. When it’s dinner time, opt for one of these beautiful, fast-to-make favorites!
What’s the appeal of sheet pan dinners?
Paleo and AIP sheet pan dinners make life a little simpler — with low-fuss meal prep and very little clean-up.
All of the recipes here use healthy, easy to access ingredients — yet some are extra flavorful, colorful and exciting.
You can always adapt recipes, too: increase the veggies or protein if more people are eating — or if you want leftovers for easy lunches and follow-up meals!
You can also halve the ingredients if cooking for two people or less!
What is a sheet pan for cooking?
A sheet pan is simply a baking tray or sheet — flat, rectangular and metal, used for baking in the oven.
While originally used to bake cookies, cakes and pizza, sheet pans have become an easy way to make a one-pan meal with no fuss: Put it in the oven while you clean up the kitchen and attend to other needs!
What can you use instead of a sheet pan? If you don’t have one, you can also use one or two large casserole dishes. Any kind of large flat pan will do.
Should you line your sheet pan? A lot of food bloggers and home cooks use aluminum foil, but foil isn’t meant to be heated. (Here‘s why.)
Instead, you can use a Silpat baking mat (this one fits a sheet pan), parchment paper or no liner at all. Simply follow the recipe and lay your food directly on the pan. Most recipes include greasing the pan in some way or toss the ingredients with fat.
There is one exemption: if using citrus or acidic ingredients AND your pan is aluminum — then you do need to line your pan.
Are all of the sheet pan recipes AIP-compliant?
Several of the Paleo recipes below use black pepper. I have noted next to these recipes to omit it (for AIP).
One other recipe below uses brown sugar, so I have indicated to substitute maple sugar or coconut sugar in its place.
Enjoy these, and let me know which ones are your favorites!
AIP Beef Sheet Pan Dinners
AIP Burgers and Fries Sheet Pan Dinner (simply delicious!)
Thai Beef-Pineapple Kabobs Sheet Pan Dinner (an exciting change from the usual)
AIP and Paleo Asian Meatballs Sheet Pan Dinner
One-Pan Meatloaf Dinner with Broccolini and Sweet Potatoes
One-Pan Steak with Beets and Crispy Kale (omit pepper)
Sheet Pan Garlic Yuca Fries and Meatballs
Sheet Pan Steak Dinner with Mushrooms (omit pepper)
Beef Bulgogi Pan (looks incredible!)
AIP Chicken Sheet Pan Dinners
Paleo Teriyaki Chicken Drumsticks (Add sliced carrots to sheet pan before baking [and toss with sauce ingredients] for more of a complete meal.)
Meal Prep Sheet Pan Chicken Thighs
Roasted Balsamic Chicken with Brussels Sprouts (omit pepper)
Easy Baked Chicken with Apples and Winter Squash (omit pepper)
Sheet Pan Dinner with Chicken Thighs and Veggies (beets, carrots, turnips, sweet potatoes, onions and herbs) (omit pepper)
Easy Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner with Veggies (kids can make this one!)
“Banh Mi” Style Sheet Pan Dinner (Vietnamese with cabbage, daikon, carrots and lovely Asian “flavor-ingredients”)
AIP Mediterranean Chicken with Capers and Artichokes
Chicken with Sweet Potatoes, Apples and Brussels Sprouts (omit pepper)
AIP Pork Sheet Pan Dinners
Balsamic Bacon Brussels Sprouts (delicious looking and so simple!; omit pepper)
Roasted “Loaded” Cauliflower Sheet Pan Dinner with Bacon (and optional Roasted Chicken too)
Acorn Squash & Pork Chops with Cranberries (omit pepper)
Sheet Pan Pork Chop Supper (omit pepper)
Pork Chops with Delicata Squash and Broccoli
Herbed Pork Roast and Apples (sub coconut or maple sugar for the brown sugar; omit pepper)
Sheet Pan AIP Breakfast with Bacon (breakfast for dinner!)
Honey Pork Tenderloin with Roasted Vegetables
Paleo and AIP Sausage Biscuits (just serve with a big salad!)
AIP Seafood Sheet Pan Dinners
Sheet Pan Shrimp and Broccoli with “Soy” Garlic Sauce
Sheet Pan Salmon and Green Vegetables with Herb Garlic Sauce (omit pepper)
Baked Fish with Cauliflower Rice Pilaf
AIP Lamb Sheet Pan Dinners
AIP and Paleo Asian Meatballs Sheet Pan Dinner
Sheet Pan Lemon-Herb Lamb and Veggies
Crispy Lamb ‘n Veggie Tray Bake (so pretty)
Roasted Lamb Steaks with Sweet Potatoes
Tips for your own sheet pan dinners
If you want to improvise and try out your own sheet pan combinations, great! Just make sure you pair meats and veggies that have similar cooking times.
- For uneven cooking times, use two sheet pans to ensure proper cooking times for each.
- With meats that cook quickly, chop or slice your vegetables small, to allow a quick cooking time for both.
- For meats that take longer, use larger cuts of root vegetables, such as sweet potatoes.
- OR — Put the food that needs a longer cooking time on one side of the pan. Bake. Remove from the oven when it’s time to add the second food (that requires less cooking), and place it on the second side of the pan. Finish baking.
It’s best to start with tried and true recipes to ensure your dinner is uniformly and properly cooked — and to ensure the best flavors. So enjoy the ones here! 🙂
How to feed a large family with sheet pan dinners
Two pans work well when you’re doubling a recipe to feed a large family (four or more).
Most sheet pan recipes can easily be doubled:
- Feeding 4 to 6 people OR you want leftovers!: Use two full sheet pans, and consider doubling the recipe. Often there’s enough protein, so just double the vegetable part of the recipe.
Looking for more great, easy AIP dinners? I know you’ll love these:
- Spicy Honey Lime Chicken Thighs
- Easy Chinese Hot and Sour Stir Fry
- AIP BBQ Chicken Salad Bowl
