Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, fajita lime chicken salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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. The cumin lime dressing is wonderfully refreshing and compliments the fajita salad perfectly. The dressing is made with a combination of.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:
- Prepare Salad
- Make ready 1 Newman's own light lime dressing (sub any lime dressing, but this one is really good)
- Get 1 celery heart (smallest, light green/yellow middle of a celery), sliced do not remove leaves
- Prepare 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- Get 1 bunch red leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
- Make ready 1 bunch green leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
- Take Fajita topping
- Get 2 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 1 large yellow sweet onion, cut into strips
- Prepare 1 anaheim or poblano pepper, cut into strips.
- Get 3 assorted bell peppers (red, green and yellow for example), cut into strips
- Make ready Chicken marinade
- Prepare 1 Serrano or Jalapeno pepper, minced
- Get 2 chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
- Prepare 2 clove garlic, minced
- Make ready 1 tsp ground cumin
- Get 1 tsp thyme
- Make ready 1/2 tsp oregano
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
My brain has been on this for his salad all week!! Actually, it's been more than one week, but who cares about that?? Chicken Fajita Salad is quick and easy to make and is substantial enough for a large lunch or dinner. My Chicken Fajita Salad has all kinds of tasty ingredients including, grilled marinated fajita chicken, red onions, bell pepper, avocados and is topped with a fabulous honey lime salad dressing.
Steps 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.
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. Serve with the creamy lime and cilantro dressing and flour tortilla wedges or baked tortilla chips. Chicken fajitas in the air fryer doesn't get any easier than this. The chicken stays nice and moist while the vegetables have a nice crisp to them. You will love this recipe for skillet chicken fajitas!
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