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Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas For Your Belly Tonight!

Turn a handful of fresh ingredients into a family favorite

By Donna SterlingPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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These easy sheet pan chicken fajitas won't disappoint! Crazy easy and tongue-slapping tasty, it's what's for supper tonight!

Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds uncooked chicken strips, cut to 2-inch length
  • 1 large sweet onion, cut into large chunks
  • 1 large green pepper, cut into thick strips
  • 1 large yellow pepper, cut into thick strips
  • 1 large orange or red pepper, cut into thick strips
  • 3 heaping tablespoons fajita seasoning
  • 2 tablespoons avocado oil
  • 1 lime
  • 10 tortillas

Toppings

  • sour cream
  • shredded cheddar cheese
  • guacamole
  • fajita/taco sauce
  • salsa
  • pico de gallo
  • lime juice
  • cilantro

Method

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees

In a gallon-size food storage bag, add avocado oil, fajita seasoning, and lime juice and squish/mix it until it's well-mixed. Add chicken and all vegetables, close bag, mix well with hands to distribute oil and seasoning evenly.

Pour onto large cooking/baking sheet. Cook in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until chicken reaches internal temperature of 165 degrees. After 15-20 minutes of cooking time, wrap tortillas in foil and place in the oven to heat them while the chicken and vegetables finish cooking.

Remove from oven, load the tortillas with the fajita mix and serve with your favorite toppings.

Tips & Tricks

  • This family meal takes 30 minutes or less from holy-crap-what-do-I-make-for-supper-tonight to feeding-your-face!
  • Be authentic and swap out the chicken for beef. Mexican vaqueros (cowboys) created Fajitas from the throwaway cuts of beef given to them as partial payment from butchered beef used to feed ranch hands during cattle roundups in the Rio Grande valley in Texas in the 1930's. Skirt steak is the classic beef used to make fajitas, but we love them any way we can get them. Beef, chicken, or shimp, gimme!!
  • Add your own favorite veggies, too. We like traditional fajita vegetables, but add mushrooms or celery or carrots or whatever you have on hand. You can never add too many veggies!
  • I like shredding my own cheese from a block because it tastes so much better and there are no added preservatives. You can also use any cheese you'd like or any combo. Throw in some pepper jack or pour on some queso Blanco!
  • Use taco seasoning if you don't have fajita seasoning. Or, you can make your own authentic fajita seasoning.
  • Make a cheesesteak sub from the filling if you'd rather have a sandwich!
  • There are a lot of new sauces available here in the Midwest. Have you tried the street taco sauces? Or the avocado and chipotle sauces? They're really tasty and add a lot of punch to tacos and fajitas. Give them a try!
  • Of course, you can add heat!! The more the better!

I hope you and your family enjoy this simple, family-pleasing meal for supper one night this week! Thanks for reading and please let me know your thoughts about this recipe in the comments!

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Be good to yourself and stop eating out every night! Anyone can make this dish! It's better than fast food and your family will love it! You do not need much cooking skill and you only need one pan and a cutting board from start to finish, so get cooking, my friends!

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