BBQ Chicken & Roasted Sweet Potato Bowls are a hearty and healthy dinner recipe bursting with bold flavors and nutritious vegetables. This easy sheet pan dinner is perfect for meal prepping lunches for work or a quick weeknight meal. 
BBQ Chicken & Roasted Sweet Potato Bowls
Chicken bowls are perfect for those of you in a dinner rut. It happens to the best of us. I know I find myself there more often than not, making the same simple meals over and over. I crave something different, but don’t always feel overly ambitious to try anything new. These BBQ Chicken & Roasted Sweet Potato Bowls are the perfect departure from your normal dinner routine, but are beautifully simple and easy!
How to Make BBQ Chicken Bowls
Making these healthy bowls is super simple and only requires one sheet pan! To get started, toss the sweet potatoes and onions on a baking sheet and coat them with olive oil, garlic and chipotle powder. If you don’t have chipotle powder you can substitute chili powder or paprika depending on your spice preference.
After the potatoes and onions have baked for 20 minute, remove them from the oven and add the broccoli and chicken breasts to the pan. Brush the chicken with a little BBQ sauce and bake an additional 15 minutes until everything is cooked through.
Remove the chicken breasts from the pan and allow to cool for a few minutes before shredding them with two forks. Toss the shredded chicken with a little more BBQ sauce. Pile all of the goodness into a bowl and enjoy these delicious BBQ Chicken & Sweet Potato Bowls!
Easy Meal Prep Chicken Bowls
I love to meal prep and regularly use this Meal Planner Calendar to plan my dinners. These healthy bowls are one of my go-to’s for meal prep. Whether you make a whole batch to prep your dinners for the week or enjoy some of the leftovers packed for lunches to bring to work the next day, they hold up well being reheated. Toss them in your favorite meal prep containers and you have easy wholesome meals without all the hassle of cooking every day!
There really isn’t anything better than a delicious and simple meal that is easy to throw together like this BBQ Chicken & Roasted Sweet Potato Bowls. They are a healthy dinner idea full of veggies and lean protein for a meal you can feel great about!
BBQ Chicken & Roasted Sweet Potato Bowls
Ingredients
- 2 medium sweet potatoes
- 1 large yellow onion
- 2 Tbsp. olive oil divided
- 1/2 tsp. salt divided
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp. chipotle powder or chili powder
- 1 head broccoli
- 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1/2 c. BBQ sauce divided
- salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°.
- Peel and chop the sweet potatoes into 1/2" chunks. Chop onion into 1 inch pieces and add to a lined sheet pan along with the sweet potatoes. Toss the sweet potatoes and onions with 1 Tbsp. olive oil, 1/4 tsp. salt, garlic powder and chipotle powder and toss until well combined. Bake at 400° for 20 minutes.
- Toss the sweet potatoes and push to one side of the pan. Add the broccoli and toss with 1 Tbsp. olive oil and 1/4 tsp. salt. Add the chicken breasts and brush with 1/4 c. BBQ sauce. Bake an additional 15-20 minutes at 400° until the chicken is done.
- Remove the pan from the oven and shred the chicken breasts using two forks. Toss the chicken with the remaining BBQ sauce. Add to bowls along with the roasted vegetables and serve immediately.
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This combo looks so yummy! We eat sweet potatoes almost nightly… I love the idea of pairing BBQ chicken with it. Beautiful photography, too 🙂
Those veggies look great!
Will the chicken only be baked for 15 minutes or do you pre-cook it somehow?
The chicken breasts will bake for 15-20 minutes and it should be cooked through. If you are using thick chicken breasts, you would need to add the chicken earlier so it can bake longer.
How many servings does this yield ?
This makes 3 bowls.
Tried this tonight-so good! I used a thicker chicken breast so I had to bake it longer, but it was still just as tasty! I love the flavor combination and spices, thanks so much for the recipe!
Also, I used 1.8 pounds of chicken so I halved the recipe and used 3 sweet potatoes and used paprika and cumin in place of chipotle powder 🙂
I made this tonight. It was simple & delicious! I especially loved the sweet potato & seasoning combination. Could also be nice with a grain on the bottom – such as quinoa. Easy to follow recipe. I will definitely be making this again. Definitely a must-try!
So happy to hear you loved it Sofia!
So, you continue baking the sweet potatoes after 20 mins with the chicken and broccoli?
Yes!
Loved this! The BBQ chicken and sweet potato were the perfect match! I would recommend leaving the chipotle powder and onion powder off and just using salt – but still good!
Your instructions on the recipe card need some re-writing. You say toss the vegetables and you don’t say to put the broccoli aside. Plus I have never had chicken fully cook in 20 minutes, it takes at least 45 minutes.
Perhaps you use very large chicken breasts? I know they can vary quite a bit and I typically use the smaller ones.
It would’ve been nice if you could have clarified what Theresa said instead of skipping right over it. I’m confused about the tossing of the vegetables as well😔. You say to toss the vegetables while leaving the sweet potatoes on the foil covered pan.
Sorry, I wasn’t seeing where the confusion was coming from, but I have spotted it now. I have updated the recipe to be more clear.
Can you put the chicken in a slow cooker instead?
Yes! I would cook on low for 4-5 hours with the BBQ sauce and a little chicken broth.
Yea I was a bit confused too. Would probably help to rewrite it. Thanks
do you recommend a different veggie besides broc? and if so, how would you adjust the recipe?
Readers have commented that they have used asparagus and green beans, both of which sound like great options. For the asparagus, I would leave the time the same, but for the beans I would add them a bit later as they shouldn’t need quite as long.
This recipe looks easy and delicious. I love sweet potatoes too and cook with olive oil in most of my recipes. It adds great flavor and is healthier than butter.
We tried this recipe tonight and used zucchini instead of broccoli, and it was delicious! The chicken was cooked to perfection in the 15-minute time frame, but we also used chicken breast tenderloins which tend to be a little on the thinner side. Either way, we will definitely be making this meal again!
Happy to hear you enjoyed it!
How much is considered one bowl?
1/3 of everything.
How well does this reheat?
The sweet potatoes will loose their crisp from roasting, but apart from that, the flavors are great reheated!
This sounds delicious! Adding it to my meal prep list. Thanks!
This is one of our rotation recipes. I love that it’s one pan! We’ve made it a handful of times now, always turns out delicious (: Thanks for posting!
Glad to hear you enjoy it Rita!
I just came across this recipe and it looks delicious. I am just wondering about the sodium count, which seems high. Is there a way to lower it?
If you found a low sodium bbq sauce, that would do the trick.
Hi
Looking at your BBQ chicken and roasted sweet potato Bowl recipe….you tell us to toss sweet potatoes twice? What do you toss them with the 2nd time and do we remove the onions from the pan at that time??
Thank you!!
The sweet potatoes are tossed a second time just so they cook evenly and don’t burn on the bottoms. They are just quickly tossed with a spoon, no need to add anything else!
As a fitness guru who needs quick and healthy meals on the go, this is perfect. Thank you!
This looks amazing. Just wondering how long can you leave in the fridge…thinking about prepping this ahead of time and eat during the week.
It’s good for a week!
After making this meal is it okay to put them in the freezer to save for the next week?
Your veggies may get a little mushy but otherwise fine!
This looks so good! Perfect family meal!
Thanks so much for this delicious and healthy recipe! We love it!
Thanks so much for having a video it was so helpful! We loved these!
Would I be able to make the sweet potatoes more sweet instead of spicy and if so, how would you suggest I go about that? I was thinking brown sugar but I’m not sure how to incorporate it.
I would add a drizzle of honey to the potatoes when you add the chicken to the sheet pan.
I feel like I am always in a dinner rut, lol!! Thank you so much for the inspo and this looks insanely delicious!! Can’t wait to try this!
I love sheet pan dinners! My family would go crazy for this! And I’ve got a sweet potato just waiting to be used!
Are these able to be frozen ?
Yes, but the sweet potatoes will be mushy as opposed to the nice texture you get from roasting them.
This was so simple to make yet so delicious! I actually was making this for myself because I have 2 daughters that are picky eaters but they ended up devouring it. So this dinner will definitely be added into our weekly rotation.
The only thing I did differently was add a little more BBQ sauce and I only seasoned my sweet potatoes with salt but I am going to try paprika and cumin next time.
Thanks for the great recipe!!
I am so happy to hear that your picky eaters enjoyed it Karrie!
This was very tasty. But my potatoes were burning before my chicken breast was finished cooking..I will tweak next time..
Sounds like you had really big chicken breasts. Maybe try splitting the breasts next time or cutting the potatoes larger.
Delicious… I made for the second time.