Simple Way to Prepare Perfect Fajita Lime Chicken Salad

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, fajita lime chicken salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Fajita Lime Chicken Salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fajita lime chicken salad using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Fajita Lime Chicken Salad:

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

Steps to make Fajita Lime Chicken Salad:

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.

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