Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, fajita lime chicken salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
Take Salad
Take 1 Newman's own light lime dressing (sub any lime dressing, but this one is really good)
Prepare 1 celery heart (smallest, light green/yellow middle of a celery), sliced do not remove leaves
Take 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves
Make ready 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
Make ready Fajita topping
Take 2 tbsp olive oil
Make ready 1 large yellow sweet onion, cut into strips
Get 1 anaheim or poblano pepper, cut into strips.
Get 3 assorted bell peppers (red, green and yellow for example), cut into strips
Take Chicken marinade
Make ready 1 Serrano or Jalapeno pepper, minced
Prepare 2 chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
Make ready 2 clove garlic, minced
Take 1 tsp ground cumin
Make ready 1 tsp thyme
Take 1/2 tsp oregano
Take 2 tbsp olive oil
Instructions 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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