Our Chicken Fajitas recipe is truly a delicious and easy one pot recipe. Our skillet chicken fajitas are perfect for tacos and more! 
A favorite dish we always love ordering at a Mexican restaurant are chicken fajitas. Because we can’t eat out everyday, we started cooking chicken fajitas at home so that we can have them on a regular basis and customize the flavors and spices to our liking. This easy chicken fajitas recipe is one of those one-pot meals that is so simple, it’s really easy to satisfy those cravings for Mexican recipes at home. There’s no reason to take the family out when you can easily make this homemade fajitas recipe. It’s also very flexible because we’ll use the chicken fajitas mixture in tortillas as chicken tacos, quesadillas and in a chicken fajita salad. So everyone in the family can customize this fajitas recipe to their own style.
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Step-by-Step Photos
marinate the chicken and prep the veggies
cook the veggies
cook the chicken
combine everything together. Enjoy!
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this recipe was originally published in 2013 and re-published in 2016 with new images and new video.
Easy Skillet Chicken Fajitas Recipe
Ingredients
Marinade
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) vegetable oil or grape seed oil (for marinade)
- 3 cloves garlic , minced
- 1/2 teaspoon (4 ml) Kosher salt or sea salt, or to taste
- 2 teaspoons (10 ml) Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) sugar
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) lime juice or lemon juice
For Fajitas
- 1 pound (454 g) boneless skinless chicken breast or chicken thighs , sliced into thin strips
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) vegetable oil or grape seed oil (for cooking)
- 1 onion , sliced
- 1 large bell pepper , sliced thin
- 1 jalapeno pepper , seeded and minced (optional)
Options For Serving Alongside
- Flour or corn tortillas for gluten free
- shredded cheese , optional
- sour cream , optional
- salsa
Instructions
- Make marinade for chicken: In large bowl, combine 1/4 cup (60ml) vegetable oil, garlic, salt, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, cumin, paprika, sugar and lime/lemon juice.
- Add chicken to the marinade, then cover and chill for about 20 minutes.
- Cook the Vegetables: Heat a large skillet on high heat and add 1 Tablespoon of oil. Then add onions cook onions until almost soft. Then add bell peppers and minced jalapeños (optional). Sear the peppers and onion until slightly charred. Remove pepper and onion mixture to bowl. Put aside.
- Cook the Chicken: In same pan, add the marinated chicken. DO NOT add the excess marinade juices because it will make the chicken less charred and crispy. But if you want a more wet fajita mixture, you can add the excess marinade.Cook chicken until done, then add pepper/onion mixture back into the skillet with the chicken. Cook for 1 more minute or until onions are hot and the mixture is combined well.
- Serve with corn or flour tortilla, cheese, sour cream or fresh salsa.
Nutrition
Simply Tia says
I love the flavors in this recipe! Could do with some of this soon. Thanks for the idea!
Jennifer says
Wow! These were fantastic! I just made them for dinner and my whole family loved them! Thank you for the recipe!
Sunshine says
I made this for dinner and it was delicious, my whole family ate them (including my 2 and 4 year old). I like that it was all made in one pan so clean up was a snap. I served them on corn tortillas with guacamole – and it was perfect.
Rose Kerry says
I made your marinade last week and a huge pan of fajitas. This was the best recipe I’ve tried. I can stop my search for the perfect fajitas. Followed the recipe exactly! We had chicken fajitas with flour tortillas the first night. With the left over’s I made chicken tortas with a home made chipotle mayonnaise. This made awesome tortas! I never have to eat fajitas out again, I’d only be disappointed.
Maggie Unzueta says
This looks incredibly delicious. Yum!
Frankie says
Really great fajitas. The whole family loved it. Thanks for the recipe.