Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, fajita lime chicken salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have fajita lime chicken salad using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fajita Lime Chicken Salad:
- Prepare Salad
- Get 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
- Get 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- Take 1 bunch red leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
- Prepare 1 bunch green leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
- Prepare Fajita topping
- Get 2 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 large yellow sweet onion, cut into strips
- Make ready 1 anaheim or poblano pepper, cut into strips.
- Make ready 3 assorted bell peppers (red, green and yellow for example), cut into strips
- Make ready Chicken marinade
- Make ready 1 Serrano or Jalapeno pepper, minced
- Take 2 chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
- Get 2 clove garlic, minced
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cumin
- Get 1 tsp thyme
- Make ready 1/2 tsp oregano
- Get 2 tbsp olive oil
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.
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