Chicken Fajitas – Simple and Delicious!

These Chicken Fajitas are made with simple ingredients and bursting with flavor. With this quick and easy recipe, you can whip up a delicious plant-based meal in no time. Try it now and enjoy the flavors of fajitas with tender chicken covered in a lime marinade, and sautéed bell peppers and onions.

Reasons to love this Chicken Fajitas recipe

They make a great, easy weeknight meal which comes together fast.

You can serve everything up as it or with flour and corn tortillas. Also rice will be delicious for sure.

Fajita seasonings give this simple dish flavor, but be assure that you can absolutely use this seasoning also for many other dishes.

What is Fajita Seasoning made of?

You can of course buy a fajita seasoning package, but let me tell you homemade fajita seasoning is so easy to make.

You will need:

• Garlic
• Cumin
• Smoked paprika
• Chili powder
• Oregano

Doesn’t seem to be complicated, right?

Ingredients you will need for this Chicken Fajitas Recipe

Chicken: I use vegan chicken, but feel free to use your preferred type. You can use chicken strips, or pieces, or chop them up in the preferred size from chicken filets.

Seasoning and marinade: For the Fajita seasoning I use as mentioned above cumin, chili powder, garlic, oregano, smoked paprika and mix it with a good dash of lime juice to make a marinade for our chicken. You can be sure you have flavor in each and every bite.

Onions and peppers: regular onions is what I use here, but red onions are also amazing. For the bell peppers I use different colors, because it simple looks colorful and bold. Yet, you can absolutely use green, red or yellow bell peppers. Everything will taste amazing and will make a wonderful result.

How to make Chicken Fajitas

Prepare the seasoning and marinade

In a small bowl combine garlic, cumin, chili powder, oregano, smoked paprika. Add a pinch salt and pepper. Mix seasoning with lime juice and 1 Tbs oil, set aside.

Marinate chicken

You can use a freezer bag or bowl: add chicken, cover with fajita marinade. Let it rest for at least 5 minutes up to 2 hours.

Cook chicken

Note I have pieces, but if you have filets you have to chop them after cooking to make pieces or stripes.

Add 1 Tbs oil to a pan and wait until it is hot.Then add in chicken, cook for around 4 minutes, put aside.

Cook Vegetables

In the same pan add in in remaining 1 Tbs oil (if needed) and cook bell peppers and onions for around 7 minutes until done and delicious. Add in chicken and cook for 2 minutes more.

 

Serving suggestions

Serve chicken fajitas plain, with tortillas or rice and of course desired toppings like salsa, guacamole, sour cream, salsa.

Leftovers and storage

Leftovers are great for 4 days in the fridge. Warm them up in skillet on low temperature or oven.

 

What to serve with Chicken Fajitas?

• Salsa, check out my Restaurant Style Salsa
• Guacamole, Pico de Gallo
• Rice like Taco Rice or Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice 
• Fried Corn 
• Black Bean and Corn Salad 
• Refried Beans
• Queso Dip

Other recipes to try

• Cowboy Butter
• Zucchini Fries
• Sopa de Fideo
• Carolina BBQ Sauce
• Burrito Bowl
• Loco Moco

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Enjoy, Florian.