Recipe: Delicious Fajita Lime Chicken Salad

Fajita Lime Chicken Salad. Crispy Cilantro Lime Chicken is juicy on the inside, golden and crisp on the outside, and cooked in the best sauce! Chicken Fajita Salad is quick and easy to make and is substantial enough for a large lunch or dinner. My Chicken Fajita Salad has all kinds of tasty ingredients including, grilled marinated fajita chicken, red onions, bell pepper, avocados and is topped with a fabulous honey lime salad dressing.

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. Chili powder and lime juice put the fajita in this quick and easy chicken salad for four. You can have Fajita Lime Chicken Salad using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Fajita Lime Chicken Salad

1. Prepare of Salad.
2. You need 1 of Newman's own light lime dressing (sub any lime dressing, but this one is really good).
3. You need 1 of celery heart (smallest, light green/yellow middle of a celery), sliced do not remove leaves.
4. You need 1/2 cup of fresh cilantro leaves.
5. You need 1 bunch of red leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits.
6. Prepare 1 bunch of green leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits.
7. It's of Fajita topping.
8. Prepare 2 tbsp of olive oil.
9. Prepare 1 large of yellow sweet onion, cut into strips.
10. You need 1 of anaheim or poblano pepper, cut into strips..
11. It's 3 of assorted bell peppers (red, green and yellow for example), cut into strips.
12. You need of Chicken marinade.
13. You need 1 of Serrano or Jalapeno pepper, minced.
14. It's 2 of chicken breasts, cut into thin strips.
15. It's 2 clove of garlic, minced.
16. Prepare 1 tsp of ground cumin.
17. You need 1 tsp of thyme.
18. It's 1/2 tsp of oregano.
19. Prepare 2 tbsp of olive oil.

Mix lime juice and chili powder until blended; pour over chicken in shallow dish. Turn chicken to evenly coat both sides of each breast with lime juice mixture. Fast and easy fajita salad loaded with crispy sweet potato fries, grilled chicken, and topped with creamy avocado dressing! My brain has been on this for his salad all week!!

Fajita Lime Chicken Salad instructions

1. 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..
2. Combine everything in the Salad section in a large bowl and toss so it is thoroughly mixed together..
3. Cut up peppers and onions, set aside..
4. 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..
5. Add onions to skillet and cook until clear and caramelized..
6. 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..
7. 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..
8. Add lime salad dressing to taste. Optional, add avocado or guacamole..

Actually, it's been more than one week, but who cares about that?? This fajita salad recipe is gluten free and can be healthy with chicken breast or if you want more flavor, cook this fajitas recipe with chicken thigh or leg meat. The cumin lime dressing is wonderfully refreshing and compliments the fajita salad perfectly. The dressing is made with a combination of. The Cilantro lime chicken along with the avocados and bell peppers are perfect! plus, the skinny chipotle ranch dressing is the cherry on top.