Chicken Fajita
A Mexico recipe for chicken fajita with fajita spice mix (1), lime juice (1), green chilli. Scaled for one.
Ingredients
- 1 tbspn fajita spice mix (1)
- 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
- ¼ tspn salt (1)
- ¼ red pepper (see notes)
- ¼ tspn sugar (1)
- ¼ green pepper (see notes)
- 1 tbspn lime juice (1)
- 1 tspn green chilli
- 1 tbspn oil (1)
- 1 pinch salt (2)
- 1 chicken breast
- 1 pinch black pepper
- 1 tbspn oil (2)
- ¼ tspn sugar (2)
- 2 tspn fajita spice mix (2)
- 1 tspn lime juice (2)
- 1 tbspn chopped tomato
- 1 tbspn fresh coriander
- 20 ml passata
Method
- 1
In a small bowl mix the fajita spice mix (1), salt (1), sugar (1), lime juice (1) and oil (1).
- 2
Cut the chicken breast into thin strips.
- 3
Mix in the chicken strips and allow to marinate for at least .
- 4
Finely chop the onion.
- 5
Deseed and thinly slice the red and green peppers. (see notes)
- 6
Deseed (or not if you like it hot) and finely chop the green chilli.
- 7
Roughly chop the coriander
- 8
Heat the oil (2) in a wok or heavy pan and cook, stirring, the fajita spice mix (2) for .
- 9
Add the chicken with its marinade and cook, stirring regularly, for .
- 10
Add the chopped tomato and passata and cook, stirring for .
- 11
Add the onion, red and green pepper, chilli, salt (2), freshly ground black pepper and sugar (2) and cook, stirring regularly for , adding water as necessary to maintain the desired sauce consistency.
- 12
Reduce the heat and add the lime juice (2) and coriander and cook for .
- 13
Tear 2 tortillas into several pieces and arrange these and tortilla chips around the chicken, but see notes for an alternative presentation.