Asian Chicken and Green Beans

Asian Chicken and Green Beans is an easy sheet pan meal that’s loaded with interesting flavors, and this is perfect for a one-pan dinner. This recipe is just slightly spicy with lots of Orange Chicken flavors, but if you’re a fan of spicy Sriracha Sauce, you can add a bit more heat!

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This Asian Chicken and Green Beans dinner idea was inspired by a delicious sugar-free orange marmalade I re-discovered. And I’m always a fan of both chicken and green beans, especially when Asian flavors are involved. For this easy meal, first the chicken is marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, lime juice, Sriracha sauce, sugar-free maple syrup, minced garlic, sesame oil, and Golden Monkfruit sweetener.

You reserve some of that mixture and blend in more soy sauce and sugar-free orange marmalade to make the glaze. The chicken pieces are fairly small, so this recipe cooks in about 20 minutes on a pre-heated sheet pan! We thought it was absolutely delicious for an easy dinner, and only one pan to clean!

But I do want to mention that even after several experiments, we didn’t find a method that completely prevented the chicken from releasing a water when it baked. Eventually we blotted up the water with a paper towel to get the result you see in the photos! Read below about what causes chicken to release water and how to minimize it. 

And we loved the Asian Chicken and Green Beans (and my handyman Steve was at my condo when we tested it the second time and he loved it too!) I hope you try this tasty sheet pan meal soon!

What ingredients do you need for this recipe?

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• soy sauce, use Gluten-Free Soy Sauce (affiliate link) if needed
• fresh-squeezed lime juice; I used my fresh-frozen lime juice
• Sriracha Sauce (affiliate link)
• Sugar-Free Maple Syrup (affiliate link)
• Golden Monkfruit Sweetener (affiliate link)
• Minced Garlic (affiliate link)
• Sesame Oil (affiliate link)l
• sugar-free orange marmalade; I used Polaner Sugar-Free Orange Marmalade with Fiber (affiliate link) which had the least amount of carbs
• boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• green beans
• toasted sesame seeds (affiliate link)

What to do if the chicken releases water when it’s cooked:

Chicken is much more lean these days and much of the chicken in the U.S. is injected with water to keep it moist. Sometimes that water cooks off on a hot pan. But in this recipe the chicken released a bit of water when it baked with the green beans. Here are tips to minimize or prevent that:

• If you’re buying chicken breasts in a package, check ingredients and try to get chicken without added water.
• After you marinate the chicken pieces, drain them very well, so the liquid is drained off
• Preheat the baking sheet for 15-20 minutes before you add the chicken and green beans.
• If needed, use a wadded-up paper towel to blot off any excess water from the sheet pan. (We did that the first time we removed the sheet pan to brush on more glaze, and again when the chicken was finished.)

Can you use thin green beans for this Asian Chicken meal?

We used thicker regular green beans for this recipe, and they were definitely cooked when the chicken was done. I think if you only have thin French-style green beans you’ll need to add them after the chicken has cooked for about 5-6 minutes.

Can you make Asian Chicken and Green Beans without Sriracha Sauce?

You can use another type of Asian hot sauce for this recipe, but some are much hotter than Sriracha. If you substitute a different hot sauce, I’d add a tablespoon and taste to see if you want more. Or if you’re not into spicy flavors just omit hot sauce completely.

How low in carbs is this Asian Chicken and Green Beans?

With the sugar-free ingredients I used, the sheet pan dinner with chicken and green beans has 13.9 net carbs per serving and 31 grams of protein.

How to Make Asian Chicken and Green Beans:

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1. Plan ahead for marinating the chicken.
2. Mix together 3 T soy sauce, lime juice, Sriracha Sauce, Sugar-Free Maple Syrup, Golden Monkfruit sweetener, minced garlic, and sesame oil.
3. Trim chicken breasts and cut into pieces.
4. Put chicken and 1/2 cup marinade into a Ziploc bag and marinate chicken 6 – 8 hours in the refrigerator.
5. When you start dinner, preheat oven and heat the sheet pan.
6. Transfer chicken pieces to colander and drain VERY WELL.
7. This is the Polaner Sugar-Free Orange Marmalade with Fiber (affiliate link) that I used. 
8. Add orange marmalade and other tablespoon of soy sauce to the reserved marinade and blend it together. I used a Magic Bullet (affiliate link) for that. 
9. Trim both ends of green beans and cut in half. 
10. Toss green beans with 1-2 tablespoons of glaze. 
11. Remove sheet pan from oven and spray lightly with non-stick spray.
12. Arrange green beans on sheet pan in a single layer  and tuck the chicken pieces around them.
13. Brush chicken and beans with half the remaining glaze and bake 10 minutes.
14. After 10 minutes, remove sheet pan. If the chicken has released water, blot it up with a wadded-up paper towel. 
15. Brush chicken and beans with rest of the glaze and bake 10 minutes more.
16. Remove sheet pan from the oven (and blot water again if needed.)
17. Sprinkle the chicken and green beans with toasted sesame seeds and serve hot.

Make it a Low-Carb Meal:

Of course Asian Chicken and Green Beans can easily be a one-dish meal without any other side dish. But if you want a more substantial meal this would taste great with Napa Cabbage Asian Slaw, Asian Cabbage Salad, or Asian Green Salad with Soy-Sesame Dressing.

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Yield: 4 servings

Asian Chicken and Green Beans

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Additional Time 6 hours

Total Time 6 hours 45 minutes

We loved this Asian Chicken and Green Beans that cooks on a sheet pan for an easy dinner. And this is a one-pan dinner the whole family is going to like!

Ingredients

• 3 T + 1 T soy sauce (see notes)
• 3 T fresh-squeezed lime juice
• 2 T Sriracha Sauce, or more
• 1/4 cup sugar-free maple syrup
• 3 T Golden Monkfruit Sweetener
• 1 T minced garlic
• 1 tsp. sesame oil
• 1/4 cup sugar-free orange marmalade
• 3 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts (see notes)
• 1 lb. fresh green beans, see notes
• 1 T toasted Sesame Seeds

Instructions

1. Earlier in the day or the night before, start marinating the chicken. You can marinate this all day while you're at work if you like.
2. Mix together 3 T soy sauce, lime juice, Sriracha Sauce, Sugar-Free Maple Syrup, Golden Monkfruit, minced garlic, and sesame oil.
3. Trim any fat or undesirable parts from chicken breasts and cut into chunks. (I cut each large breast into 8 pieces to make 4 servings with six pieces of chicken per serving.)
4. Put the chicken and 1/2 cup of the marinade into a Ziploc bag and marinate chicken 6 - 8 hours in the refrigerator, storing the extra marinade in the fridge.
5. When you're ready to cook, preheat oven to 425F/218C and heat the sheet pan while you prepare the glaze and the green beans.
6. Transfer the chicken pieces to a colander placed in the sink and let it drain VERY WELL.
7. Add the orange marmalade and other tablespoon of soy sauce to the reserved marinade and blend it together, using a blender, food processor, or Magic Bullet. (If you don't blend it, the glaze will be quite chunky from the fiber in the marmalade; some people may not mind that.)
8. Trim both ends of the green beans and cut them in half. Toss the green beans with 1-2 tablespoons of the glaze. 
9. Remove the hot sheet pan from oven and spray lightly with non-stick spray
10. Arrange green beans in a single layer on the sheet pan and tuck the drained chicken pieces among the beans, spacing them out as much as possible.
11. Brush chicken and beans with half the remaining glaze and bake 10 minutes.
12. After 10 minutes, remove sheet pan. If the chicken has released water, blot it up with a wadded-up paper towel. 
13. Brush chicken and beans with the remaining glaze and bake 10 minutes more.
14. Remove from the oven (and blot water again if needed.)
15. Sprinkle Asian Chicken and Green Beans with toasted sesame seeds and serve hot.

Notes

Use gluten-free soy sauce if you need this recipe to be gluten-free.

My chicken breasts were a little over 8 ounces each before trimming.

We used the regular thicker green beans for this recipe. Thin, French-Style green beans will probably be best cooked for slightly less time.

Nutritional information is calculated using the Polaner Sugar-Free Orange Marmalade with Fiber that I used. (If you can't find that brand the net carbs may be higher; this brand was really low in carbs for this type of product.)

This recipe created by Kalyn and Kara.

Nutrition Information

Yield

4

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 237Total Fat 4.8gSaturated Fat 1.1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 2.9gCholesterol 77mgSodium 527mgCarbohydrates 21gFiber 7.1gSugar 6.7gProtein 31g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.

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Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
If you use the Polaner Sugar-Free Orange Marmalade and other sugar-free ingredients I used, this recipe for Asian Chicken and Green Beans has 13.9 net carbs (based on four servings.) That should make it suitable for low-carb diets (but not Keto) and for any phase of the original South Beach Diet.

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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
This sheet pan recipe for Asian chicken baked with green beans was first posted in 2023. It was updated with more information in 2026.

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