Easy Chicken Fajitas
Last week I shared with you my recipe for homemade fajita seasoning mix.
This week I'll show you how easy it is to make delicious chicken fajitas right at home. 🙂
There are a lot of different ways that people enjoy having fajitas but personally I enjoy a combination of sliced onions with green and red peppers.
I usually cook up some slices of chicken breast that were seasoned with my homemade fajita seasoning mix. You could also use thin strips of beef in your fajitas as well.
Chicken fajitas can be made very quickly when you're short on time BUT if you do have a little extra time, you might want to try marinating the strips of meat in the seasoning for a couple hours before cooking.
It's not absolutely essential that you do, but it does give the meat a great flavor. 🙂
Ok, so if you look at the image above it looks like one person is sitting down to eat a big pile of peppers and chicken. lol
This is just how I like to serve fajitas. I lay all the ingredients out and everyone can put as little or as much as they'd like into their tortilla wraps.
I like a little salsa or guacamole as toppings for my fajitas but they're still super tasty with just the meat and veggies!
Chicken fajitas are awesome served with some Mexican style rice and some corn.
Check out the recipe below!
Easy Chicken Fajitas
- Yield: Makes enough for 4-6 fajitas
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 tbsps of fajita seasoning mix (you can use my recipe here)
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into thin strips
- 2 green peppers, thinly sliced
- 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 large onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- flour tortillas
Instructions
- In a large skillet or frying pan, heat up the cooking oil on medium heat.
- Put the chicken in a mixing bowl and coat the strips with the fajita seasoning.
- Once the oil in the pan is hot, lay the chicken strips in the pan. Try not to overcrowd the pan.
- Cook the strips for about 3 minutes on one side and flip over to continue cooking. The strips should be browned on each side.
- Remove the chicken from the pan and set aside on a plate.
- Into the same skillet, cook the pepper and onions, add the water and cook until softened. The leftover seasonings from cooking the chicken will flavor the peppers and onions. 🙂
- Serve the chicken strips with the peppers and onions wrapped up in flour tortillas.
How do you like your chicken fajitas?
I'd love to hear from you so please feel free to leave a comment in the comment section below! 🙂
We love our chicken fajitas, we usually do them with cilantro and lime juice, gives them great punch!
I was born & raised in San Antonio, so I developed a love for fajitas at an early age. I’ve never cooked them on the skillet, though, just the grill! Thanks for sharing!
we do taco Tuesdays and love finding new recipes. we need to try a fajita night – so many options!
I like my fajitas with lots of toppings. Salsa, guac, olives, sour cream, and whatever else we are in the mood for.
The chicken shown here looks extremely appetizing. I like my chicken fajitas spicy and always with sour cream as a topping.
I will have to fix something like this for children sometime. They both love chicken!
This looks absolutely delicious. My kids love Chicken Fajita. They will be thrilled to have it
This sounds amazing!! I know my husband would love it!
That is a great sounding mix. My oldest two boys do love to have them some fajitas!
Those fajitas look amazing! Off to find the seasoning mix so I can make this weekend!
Oh my. They look amazing. My kids would love these for sure but so would I! Looks so good, now I’m hungry!
Mmmmm, these look so tasty. My family would love these. Look easy to make too. Thank you for sharing.
Mmmm those do look really good. I enjoy onions and green and red peppers as well. Thanks for the recipe.
I love fajitas! They are so convenient to make, and they don’t heat up the whole house. Thanks for the recipe!
I haven’t made homemade fajitas in ages. I need to save this recipe and make them soon!
That does sound like an easy recipe! Perfect for hectic week nights, and easy enough to customize depending on which veggies you like best!
These looks super yummy, I am a big fan of chicken fajitas! I tend to have them at least once a week, I would love to try this recipe.
I love chicken fajitas! This recipe looks so simple now I can save some bucks and just make them at home! Thanks!
I love how you separated the veggies and the meat. My kids usually pick out the meat and leave a plate full of veggies for me!
Those look wonderful! They also sound incredibly easy to make. I’m all about easy!
Even though I just ate breakfast, I’m pretty sure I’d easily wolf down one of those chicken fajitas. Pretty much my favourite food. Lol.
We are big fans of Mexican food in our house! I will have to try these – they sound awesome.