Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, fajita lime chicken salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook fajita lime chicken salad using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fajita Lime Chicken Salad:
- Prepare Salad
- Prepare 1 Newman's own light lime dressing (sub any lime dressing, but this one is really good)
- Make ready 1 celery heart (smallest, light green/yellow middle of a celery), sliced do not remove leaves
- Get 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- Get 1 bunch red leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
- Get 1 bunch green leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
- Take Fajita topping
- Take 2 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 large yellow sweet onion, cut into strips
- Make ready 1 anaheim or poblano pepper, cut into strips.
- Get 3 assorted bell peppers (red, green and yellow for example), cut into strips
- Prepare Chicken marinade
- Prepare 1 Serrano or Jalapeno pepper, minced
- Get 2 chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
- Take 2 clove garlic, minced
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cumin
- Make ready 1 tsp thyme
- Get 1/2 tsp oregano
- Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
Enter this scrumptious, and incredibly simple, chicken fajita salad with peppers and onions, fresh avocado slices and crumbled queso fresco. 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. Fast and easy fajita salad loaded with crispy sweet potato fries, grilled chicken, and topped with creamy avocado 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.
My brain has been on this for his salad all week!! Actually, it's been more than one week, but who cares about that?? 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. Remove from heat and slice the chicken into strips. In a small bowl, combine the olive oil, lime juice, brown sugar, chili, and salt, stirring until evenly mixed.
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