Sheet Pan Pesto Chicken Drumsticks with Green Beans, Tomatoes, and Cannellini Beans

Try this easy all-in-one Sheet Pan Pesto Chicken Drumsticks with Green Beans dinner the next time you’re looking to jazz up a basic pack of chicken drumsticks! Naturally gluten free, and all good.

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Hey! So today’s Sheet Pan Pesto Chicken Drumsticks with Green Beans, Tomatoes, and Cannellini Beans recipes has allll the things… and, they’reall crammed onto one handy pan. (Yes, I know I just was saying that it was too hot to use the oven for long, but sometimes I’m simply a mystery wrapped in an enigma.)

Or, OK, it’s actually more like: The idea for this sheet pan chicken drumsticks recipe popped into my head, and just wouldn’t leave until I scratched that itch to see if it would come out anything like I envisioned. Luckily, it did, and also luckily, it cooled off some here for a few days — making a sheet pan recipe less risky than it might seem in mid-summer.

This one pan meal is both protein-packed and filling, what with all the chicken plus the white beans — and then we of course squeeze a couple of veggies in there too, for a true all-in-one dinner recipe.

Sheet Pan Pesto Chicken Drumsticks with Green Beans, Tomatoes, and Cannellini Beans

Ingredients

– for the chicken

2.5 lbs chicken drumsticks, trimmed
2 Tbsp prepared pesto
1 Tbsp olive oil
Sea salt, to taste
Black pepper, to taste

– for the veggies

8 oz green beans, trimmed & halved
10 oz grape tomatoes
8 whole peeled garlic cloves
2 Tbsp prepared pesto
1 Tbsp olive oil
Sea salt, to taste
Black pepper, to taste

– for serving

1 can Cannellini beans, rinsed and drained

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray.

Trim the chicken drumsticks, then toss them with olive oil, salt & pepper, and pesto. Arrange them on the prepared baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, trim & halve green beans and peel garlic. Toss the veggies in a large bowl with olive oil, salt & pepper, and pesto.

Remove the sheet pan from the oven and flip drumsticks over, moving them down to one end of the pan. Add the green beans, tomatoes, and garlic to the other half of the baking sheet.

Return pan to oven and roast for another 20 minutes, or until drumsticks are cooked through and tomatoes are wrinkled and beginning to burst.

Toss the roasted veggies with drained Cannellini beans, and serve the beans & veggies with the pesto chicken drumsticks.

Note: You may need to adjust cooking times down a little if your drumsticks are on the smaller side.

Pesto-vus for the Rest-of-us

Pesto packs so much oomph that you don’t really need a lot of other seasonings to infuse this recipe with flavor. Try this easy all-in-one dinner the next time you’re looking to jazz up a basic pack of chicken drumsticks! This sheet pan pesto chicken drumsticks recipe is naturally gluten free.

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This one pan meal is both protein-packed and filling, what with all the chicken plus the white beans — and then we of course squeeze a couple of veggies in there too, for a true all-in-one dinner recipe.

Course dinner

Keyword chicken, chicken drumsticks, drumsticks, sheet pan

Total Time 55 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

– for the chicken

• 2.5 lbs chicken drumsticks trimmed
• 2 Tbsp prepared pesto
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• Sea salt to taste
• Black pepper to taste

– for the veggies

• 8 oz green beans trimmed & halved
• 10 oz grape tomatoes
• 8 whole peeled garlic cloves
• 2 Tbsp prepared pesto
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• Sea salt to taste
• Black pepper to taste

– for serving

• 1 can Cannellini beans rinsed and drained

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray.
• Trim the chicken drumsticks, then toss them with olive oil, salt & pepper, and pesto. Arrange them on the prepared baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, trim & halve green beans and peel garlic. Toss the veggies in a large bowl with olive oil, salt & pepper, and pesto.
• Remove the sheet pan from the oven and flip drumsticks over, moving them down to one end of the pan. Add the green beans, tomatoes, and garlic to the other half of the baking sheet.
• Return pan to oven and roast for another 20 minutes, or until drumsticks are cooked through and tomatoes are wrinkled and beginning to burst.
• Toss the roasted veggies with drained Cannellini beans, and serve the beans & veggies with the pesto chicken drumsticks.

Notes

You may need to adjust cooking times down a little if your drumsticks are on the smaller side.

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