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Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas – 30 Minute Meal

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Meals come together quickly when you use the broil feature in your oven. Our simple Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas can be on the table in 30 minutes or less when you prep things in advance or get the gang to help with dinner preparation. Then it’s as simple as preheating your oven, tossing items on baking sheet and broil. In about 12 minutes you are sitting down to eat dinner.

This is a meal you can modify to suit your tastes. I don’t add cheese to my fajita’s, but the family does.

Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas
Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas

TIPS

Change up your onions by using white or yellow in stead. Roast some baby tomatoes and add a variety of peppers. Remember to cut everything the same size to ensure even cooking time.

Tortillas: We warm our tortillas on our electric glass stove burner. Turn it on medium, toss one on, watch it, after a few seconds flip it with tongs and set onto a plate. Do this with all of them and keep them covered under a dish towel until ready to serve. A second warming option is wrap them in foil, place on rimmed baking sheet and put on lower rack in oven until warmed through while your fajitas cook.

 

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Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas - 30 Minute Meal
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Ingredients
  • ⅓ cup olive oil
  • 2 tsp chili powder
  • 2 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 2 large bell peppers, sliced into strips
  • 1 small red onion, peeled and sliced in wedges or strips
  • 3 chicken breasts, sliced into smaller pieces
  • cooking spray
  • 12 flour tortillas, small or large
  • sour cream
  • guacamole
  • salsa
  • tex mex shredded cheese
  • lime wedges
  • chopped cilantro
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to broil. Ensure one of your rack is in the top slot.
  2. Spray cooking oil on your sheet pan. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl mix together olive oil, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Add onions and peppers and toss until coated. Scoop out onions and peppers shaking off any excess oil and add to one side of sheet pan.
  4. Toss chicken in to spice and oil mixture mixing to combine flavours. Add to other side of sheet pan.
  5. Broil about 10-12 minutes, stirring after 5 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through. There will be liquid in the pan from the chicken.
  6. Serve immediately with warmed tortillas and whatever extras you enjoy.

Simple Chicken Fajitas

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Mexican style food is something our family adores. I’ve tried many different versions of chicken fajita’s and always found the flavours are rather bland. So after playing with some spices most of us would have in our pantry, I was able to get the flavour I was hoping for. Plus the family enjoyed the meal so much my daughter asked for it for lunch the next day at school (now that is unusual).

Fajita’s for our family are a quick & easy supper on an activity night. These are truly yummy.

If you are making these for the Wild Rose D-Tox you will have to eat them without the tortillas, sour cream, cheese and any pickled peppers.

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Simple Chicken Fajitas
 
Ingredients
  • 4 chicken breasts, boneless & skinless
  • 1 tbsp chili powder
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp kosher salt
  • 2 tsp cumin
  • 4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 tbsp lime juice, fresh
  • canola oil
  • ½ cup spanish onion, sliced
  • 1 cup pepper (red, green, orange, yellow), sliced
  • whole wheat flour tortillas
Instructions
  1. In a ziplock bag combine chili powder, oregano, salt, cumin, garlic, lime juice and a little oil. Seal bag and smoosh to combine flavours. Add your chicken and smoosh a little more. Refrigerate for a minimum 15 minutes or longer if you have time.
  2. Put your onions and peppers in a bowl. Pour on a little oil and season with salt, pepper and a little cumin.
  3. Take chicken out of marinade and drain. Put on greased BBQ and grill approximately 6-7 minutes per side on med-high until cooked through and juices run clear. Remove from heat and let rest under cover.
  4. Meanwhile on a preheated BBQ grill topper or stove top grill pan add some oil and your onion/pepper mix. Give it a little more s&p and saute for about 4-5 minutes or until veggies tender crisp. Set aside in a bowl.
  5. Get all your fixin’s ready, heat up your flour tortillas (10 seconds in microwave, or toss on grill), slice your chicken, grab some peppers/onions and you are ready to assemble your chicken fajita.
Notes
Fixins: shredded lettuce, diced tomato, salsa, guacamole, sour cream, hot peppers (banana or jalapeno), shredded cheese, chopped cilantro