One Pot Chicken Fajitas

One Pot Chicken Fajitas offer a simple yet good meal, featuring tender, seasoned chicken strips cooked with colorful bell peppers and onions, all in a single pot for easy preparation and minimal cleanup.

At Avdaye, we add lots of tips in all of our recipes – because we are a home cook without any formal training, and we find we are more confident making dishes when we understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. Our goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

Simple Chicken Fajitas

Chicken fajitas are one of our favorite dinners when we are craving something hearty, spicy, and filling fast – chicken fajitas always fit the craving!

They are simple, naturally low carb, and work in a ton of different meals – as a wrap, burrito, taco, with rice, or over a salad – plus they are great as leftovers to take to work the next day.

A great chicken fajita recipe is suited to weeknights, dinner parties, or a big family meal – and can be served as something quick and filling – or set up as the fun event at a make your own fajitas party!

If you've ever wanted good, sizzling fajitas like your favorite restaurant would make, you need this good and easy recipe!

Chicken Fajita Seasoning

To season your chicken fajitas, it is important to have a seasoning mix that you love since it will be a prominent part of the flavor profile for the recipe. Since we're not using a ton of ingredients, every flavor you put into these chicken fajitas will stand out, so it's important to add things you love!

We've seen a lot of fajita mixes with sugar – we prefer to leave ours sugar free. If you'd like to try a tiny bit of sweet to this chicken fajita seasoning, you can add 1/2 tsp – 1 tsp of white sugar.

For this recipe you can buy store bought fajita mix – or use our favorite Chicken Fajita Seasoning below:

Chicken Fajita Seasoning Recipe

To make the chicken fajita seasoning mix the following ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teasponn cayenne pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

How To Make Fajitas Sizzle

To present this recipe as sizzling fajitas, like your favorite restaurant, you will need to make a little bit of modifications – but it's simple!

• First off, you'll want to NOT cook your fajitas in a cast iron skillet – but you will still need a cast iron pan. Pop it in the oven as high as your oven will go as you cook your fajitas in another pan – we will be presenting them in the scorching hot cast iron – but cooking the fajitas in another pan.
• Toss chicken in fajita spices and cook them in a separate pan on the stovetop.
• When chicken is cooked through, and pan in the oven is SCORCHING hot, carefully remove cast iron from oven and place on a trivet or other safe and sturdy surface.
• Working quickly (carefully!) add sliced peppers and onions to pan, then place chicken over it.
• Quickly pour 1 tbsp soy sauce and 1 tbsp oil into the pan – it will start sizzling like at a restaurant!
• Let vegetables cook as the sizzling dies down, serve, and wow your guests with a sizzling plate of fajitas!

Serve it with

These side dishes are fabulous to serve alongside fajitas for a good, easy chicken fajita fiesta! We love to serve this with The Best Ever Cauliflower RiceKnockoff Titos Tacos SalsaChipotle Knockoff Cilantro Lime RiceRestaurant Style Instant Pot Pinto Beans4 Ingredient Keto Jalapeno Cheese Breadand Spicy Pineapple Mango Salsa- Whole Foods Knockoff

These easy chicken fajitas are a great one pot chicken dinner – if you love them, try some of our other favorite easy one pot chicken dinners!

Each easy chicken dinner is simple, quick, and good – our family's favorite one pot chicken dinners that we know you will love as much as we do.

Or check out these other favorites: The Best Easy Lemon Chicken RecipeCreamy Garlic Chicken Thighs and Mushrooms RecipeBaked Ranch Chicken ThighsEasy Keto Low Carb Cheesy Pizza ChickenThe Best Easy Chicken Taco Salad Recipe, and Slow Cooker Chicken Taco Bowls Recipe.

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Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• ½ teaspoon onion powder
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
• ½ teaspoon ground cumin
• 2 tbsp avocado oil, or other high heat oil
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 lb chicken, sliced into strips
• 1 white onion, sliced into half rounds
• 1 bell pepper, sliced into thin strips
• 3 cloves garlic, diced
• 1 jalapeno, sliced
• ¼ cup cilantro chopped
• 2 oz lime juice

Method

1. In a small bowl, mix cornstarch, chili powder, salt, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, and cumin and mix well.
2. Set aside.
3. Slice chicken breasts into long, thin strips and season generously with salt and pepper.
4. Heat a cast iron skillet on medium until extremely hot (but not smoking).
5. Add oil to pan and swirl around until shimmery.
6. Add chicken to pan and let brown, stirring often. Chicken should cook quickly if heat is high enough, so stir often to prevent sticking or burning.
7. When chicken is browned (after about 2 minutes) – but not cooked through – add onions and peppers.
8. Let chicken, peppers, and onions cook until vegetables are browned and soft and chicken is cooked through, about 5 minutes.
9. Sprinkle seasoning mix over chicken and vegetables and stir to coat, adding lime juice to help coat. Add up to 2 tbsp water if needed to spread seasoning more evenly.
10. Turn off heat and sprinkle with cilantro. Serve immediately.