Legume Free Pesto-Walnut Sheet-Pan Chicken with Broccoli & Carrots

Sheet-pan dinners are a weeknight lifesaver, and this one delivers serious flavor with almost no cleanup. The star of the show is a homemade walnut pesto — bright basil, raw walnuts, garlic, and a squeeze of fresh lemon blitzed together into a thick, fragrant paste that gets pressed right onto the chicken before it hits the oven. While the pesto does all the heavy lifting on flavor, the broccoli and carrots roast alongside until they're tender with those irresistible charred edges. The whole thing comes together on a single pan, which means dinner and cleanup are both done before anyone gets impatient. For anyone avoiding legumes, this recipe is naturally in the clear — every ingredient from the pesto to the vegetables is completely free of beans, lentils, peas, or soy, with no workarounds needed. That's genuinely rare for a dish this satisfying, since so many sauces and marinades sneak in unexpected legume-derived ingredients. Here, the richness comes entirely from walnuts and good olive oil, so the flavor is full and indulgent without any substitutions. Finish each plate with a squeeze of lemon and a few torn basil leaves, and it looks like something you'd order at a restaurant.

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