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Chicken Fajitas Recipe

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Eleanor Duncan

Chicken Fajitas
Chicken Fajitas

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken fajitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Fajitas is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chicken Fajitas is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken fajitas using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Fajitas:
  1. Make ready 2 tbsp fresh squeezed lime juice
  2. Take 2 tbsp oil
  3. Make ready 1 large garlic clove, minced
  4. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  5. Get 1 tsp salt
  6. Prepare 1/2-1 tsp ground chili (adjust to your desired spice preference)
  7. Take 1 tbsp fresh chopped cilantro (optional)
  8. Get 1 1/2 lb (650 grams) chicken thighs, skinless and boneless
  9. Prepare 3 large bell peppers (or capsicums), cut into strips (I use green, red and yellow)
  10. Take 1 onion thinly sliced
Steps to make Chicken Fajitas:
  1. Slice chicken into strips
  2. In a large shallow bowl, combine lime juice, oil, garlic, cumin, salt, chili and cilantro; mix together. Add the chicken and If time allows, let marinate for 30 minutes.
  3. Heat a large skillet or pan (12-inch | 30cm) on medium-high heat until smoking. Add a drizzle of olive oil to lightly coat the bottom of the pan. Sear the chicken on both sides until golden, charred and cooked right through. Cook for about 8 minutes. Flip them a couple of times while cooking so they get a nice even char.
  4. Transfer chicken to a warm plate, loosely tent with foil and let rest
  5. Cut peppers and onions into strips
  6. Add the peppers and onions to the skillet (drizzle with a little extra oil only if needed), and cook until the onion is soft and the peppers are slightly charred and cooked to your liking. Season with salt and pepper.
  7. Add chicken strips and cook for about 2-3 minutes.
  8. Serve with warmed tortillas, sour cream and chopped cilantro
  9. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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