This easy Healthy Sheet Pan Salmon with Basil Pesto and Broccolini and Sweet Potatoes is a great weeknight meal!
This week I am all about healthy recipes that make me feel good. I’ve been sharing some of my recipes that I make over and over again. To be honest, a lot of these recipes are things that I never even thought about sharing because to me they are the meals that I just sort of throw together when I don’t feel like cooking or coming up with something creative. Kind of like those boring meals that I never thought anyone would be very interested in. But then it hit me that if these are types of meals that I make over and over again, then it’s probably something that y’all might actually love! Funny how sometimes those things that are the most simple are the best. Anyways, here is one of my healthy go-to sheet pan meals!
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Healthy Sheet Pan Salmon with Basil Pesto and Broccolini and Sweet Potatoes
This is a meal that we make often, usually on Sunday or Monday nights when we are feeling like our bodies need a meal that is full of nutrition but our minds want something that is quick and easy to clean up! We also usually do our fish or seafood meals at the beginning of the week when we go to the grocery store or on a Friday or Saturday when we head out specifically to pick up whatever is looking freshest.
I really enjoy salmon because it’s got a lot of flavor on it’s own so you don’t need much to make it a great meal! I love Basil Pesto because it’s a simple flavorful sauce that goes great on everything. If we don’t do a pesto, we love a good mustard
Easy Healthy Dinner
This dinner is great because everything, except for the pesto of course, cooks on one sheet pan! The key to getting everything done at the same time is to get the sweet potatoes in first. They take longer to cook than the fish or broccolini. The smaller you dice up the potatoes the faster they will cook. I usually dice them into about 1 inch cubes. Any size works but just know that the larger the pieces are the longer you will need to bake them before adding the broccolini and salmon.
After about 15 minutes with the 1 inch sized sweet potatoes in oven, pull out the sheet pan and give the potatoes a toss. Then add the broccolini and salmon and finish cooking everything, usually about another 15 minutes or so.
Easy Sheet Pan Meal
I hope you all love this sheet pan meal as much as we do! Tell me in the comments some of your favorite sheet pan dinner hacks!
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Healthy Sheet Pan Salmon with Basil Pesto and Broccolini and Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb salmon filet
- 1 bunch broccolini
- 1 sweet potato diced, about 2 cups
- 1 lemon about 2 oz lemon juice
- 1 tbsp olive oil divided
- 1 tsp kosher salt divided
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 2 tbsp Basil Pesto
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 375° and prepare a large sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper.
- Toss diced sweet potatoes with half the olive oil and oil. Spread across about 1/3 of the baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.
- While sweet potatoes are baking, wash and dry broccolini.
- Remove sweet potatoes from oven after 15 minutes. Add salmon and broccolini to pan. Drizzle salmon and broccolini with remaining olive oil, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Leave lemon on pan as an aromatic. Bake for an additional 15 minutes or until potatoes are tender and salmon is cooked through.
- Remove from oven and transfer to plates. Drizzle salmon with Basil Pesto and enjoy!
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