Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, fajita lime chicken salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Grilled Chili Lime Chicken Fajita Salad Look no further than your grill for healthy and easy chicken fajitas—throw them over romaine hearts for added crunch. This fajita salad recipe is gluten free and can be healthy with chicken breast or if you want more flavor, cook this fajitas recipe with chicken thigh or leg meat.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fajita lime chicken salad using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Fajita Lime Chicken Salad:
- Make ready Salad
- Make ready Newman's own light lime dressing (sub any lime dressing, but this one is really good)
- Prepare celery heart (smallest, light green/yellow middle of a celery), sliced do not remove leaves
- Prepare fresh cilantro leaves
- Prepare red leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
- Get green leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
- Get Fajita topping
- Get olive oil
- Make ready yellow sweet onion, cut into strips
- Prepare anaheim or poblano pepper, cut into strips.
- Get assorted bell peppers (red, green and yellow for example), cut into strips
- Prepare Chicken marinade
- Get Serrano or Jalapeno pepper, minced
- Get chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
- Make ready garlic, minced
- Get ground cumin
- Prepare thyme
- Make ready oregano
- Make ready olive oil
Tender, juicy lime and chili-marinated chicken with fresh bell peppers, onions, garlic and avocado slices will be sure to hit the spot. Enter this scrumptious, and incredibly simple, chicken fajita salad with peppers and onions, fresh avocado slices and crumbled queso fresco. Getting delicious chicken fajitas on the table is a breeze using a slow cooker; and clean up takes no time with a disposable Reynolds® Slow Cooker Liner. Turn chicken fajitas into a salad by spooning the mixture of spicy chicken, bell pepper and onions over lettuce and topping with beans, tomato, cheese and olives.
Instructions to make Fajita Lime Chicken Salad:
- Combine everything in Chicken Marinade section in a plastics zip lock bag or bowl and mix thoroughly. Add more oil if needed. Let sit for at least an hour, the longer it sits the more seasonings the chicken will absorb.
- Combine everything in the Salad section in a large bowl and toss so it is thoroughly mixed together.
- Cut up peppers and onions, set aside.
- Put a small amount of oil in a skillet and warm to medium high. Add chicken letting as much seasoning and oil get into the skillet as possible. Cook until chicken is no longer pink. Remove from skillet and set aside.
- Add onions to skillet and cook until clear and caramelized.
- Add peppers to skillet and cook until soft. Turn the skillet let heat to high and mix chicken in with peppers. Stir every few seconds to blacken bits and pieces of the mixture.
- When little blacked bits of meat and veggies are visible over about 30% of the mixture remove from heat and place over the bed of lettuce.
- Add lime salad dressing to taste. Optional, add avocado or guacamole.
Serve with the creamy lime and cilantro dressing and flour tortilla wedges or baked tortilla chips. This healthy and easy chicken kale salad is a play on classic chicken fajitas, but without the tortillas. Get the recipe from Food & Wine. For this healthy play on fajitas, flour tortillas are replaced with kale, served with seared chicken, charred vegetables and black beans. Remove from heat and slice the chicken into strips.
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