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Chicken, sweet potatoes, veggies, and beans.

This one takes a lot longer, but that’s because it’s meant to be done in a huge batch, then frozen. It makes at least 6 meals if you’re like 7 feet tall and probably a lot more (like, 12+) if you’re a regular mortal human. I tend to make this as well as the same thing but with shrimp instead of chicken and creamer potatoes instead of sweet potatoes, and that one 4 hour session of meal-prepping then lasts me most of the meals for an entire month.

  • Gluten-free
  • Dairy-free

⏲️ Time to First Bite (❌ 1-3 hours)

You probably won’t be eating this tonight. Woh woh, hear me out! More time now, but you’re covered for many nights of no cooking.

🍳 Dishes Needed (4)

  • Air frier
  • 1+ oven pans
  • A bowl
  • Strainer

Also needed, but not to clean the same night:

  • A ton of containers for freezing individual meals in
  • Tin foil
  • Scissors

🍠 Ingredients (4)

  • 🍗 Costco pack of bone-in chicken thighs, ~$20
  • 🍠 Costco pack of sweet potatoes, ~$5 I think, maybe more like $10
  • 🥫 Costco pack of black beans, ~$10
  • 🥦 Costco pack of frozen veggies, ~$15
  • Seasonings:
    • Garlic powder
    • Onion powder
    • Dill weed
  • Optional:
    • Crushed cayenne pepper
    • Frank’s Red Hot

🍲 Recipe

This can go a lot faster if you have a ton of pans and a huge oven, because you could potentially cook all the chicken and all the sweet potatoes at the same time. But it works totally fine if you’re normal like me and have to do this in several steps.

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 425.
    1. While you’re waiting for it to heat up, lay tin foil over your pans. This will minimize cleanup.
  2. Chicken:
    1. Mix a bunch of garlic powder, onion powder, dill weed, and (if you like spicy junk) crushed cayenne pepper into a bowl to make the chicken seasoning powder. If it’s your first time doing this, maybe just make a little bit for now, and you can always make more in a bit.
    2. Cut all the chicken thighs out of the bags and lay them next to each other (if possible, not touching each other) on the pan(s) on top of the tin foil.
    3. Sprinkle a hefty amount of the chicken seasoning on the thighs. It should pretty much coat the entire top of each thigh in a thin layer.
    4. Put the chicken in the oven for about 50 minutes. Check on them every once in a while starting at 30 minutes to make sure the seasoning doesn’t burn. If it starts to burn, they’re ready to take out.
    5. Put 1-5 thighs in each container to be frozen.
  3. Sweet potatoes:
    1. Rinse the sweet potatoes. Cut off the ends of them and any other gross parts, like those long root things that grow out of them.
    2. Put them on the pans on top of the tinfoil.
    3. Cook them for 1 hour and 10 minutes. No seasoning or anything. It sounds too good to be true, but sweet potatoes are really good on their own, and they are really hard to screw up, unless you under cook them. It’s better to overcook than undercook. If you can stick in a fork and it sinks all the way through (once you get past the skin), they’re done.
    4. Put 1/2 - 2 sweet potatoes in each container.
  4. Veggies and beans:
    1. Once the chicken and sweet potatoes are done, fill the remaining room in the containers with frozen veggies and black beans. The veggies are easy, just dump some out.
    2. For the beans, dump several cans of black beans into a strainer in the sink. Rinse off the beans (this makes them taste less starchy and also makes you fart less). Then throw some beans in each container.
  5. Now freeze all the containers.

When reheating:

  1. Take the lid off the frozen container and put a paper towel over the top.
  2. Microwave it for 2 minutes.
  3. Scoop everything into your air frier.
  4. Air fry at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes.
  5. Done! The beans and chicken thighs should be crispety crunchety, and the sweet potatoes should be nice and soft. If those things aren’t true, add more time to the air frier.
  6. Optional: I like to eat the chicken doused in Frank’s Red Hot.