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Chicken Fajita Wraps Recipe With an Easy Seasoning

These are the best chicken fajita wraps!
Tender juicy and spicy chicken strips, crunchy bell peppers and onions, a homemade fajita seasoning and a chicken fajita marinade all loaded in a wrap with the topping of your choice!
Prep 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings :6 people

Ingredients
  

  • 450 grams skinless chicken breasts 4 to 5 chicken breasts
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 6 wraps or tortillas
  • salt and pepper

Vegetables

  • 3 bell peppers capsicum deseeded and sliced
  • 2 medium onions OR 1 large sliced medium

Marinade (Please see notes below)

  • 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
  • 1 tablespoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon curry powder
  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 4 garlic cloves minced
  • 2 fresh limes + zest
  • 2 tablespoons coriander sauce
  • 2 tablespoons chipotle sauce

Instructions 

  • Make the Marinade: Add all the marinade ingredients into a food processor and give it a few pulses until the ingredients are all combined. Set aside.
  • Dry and Slice the Chicken: Place the chicken on a board and pat the chicken breasts dry. With a sharp kitchen knife, hold the chicken flat to the board with your palm over the chicken breast keeping it stable. Insert the knife lengthwise slicing from one end to the other, giving you 2 chicken cutlets. Continue until all hte chicken is sliced and you now have 8 cutlets.
  • Slice the chicken into strips cutting against the grain. The strips should be about 1/4inch to 1/2inch. See notes below. Season the chicken strips with salt and pepper.
  • Combine: Add the marinade to the now sliced and seasoned chicken coating all the chicken.
  • Cook: Heat the oil in a large skillet, non-stick pan or lightly oil a griddle. Sear the chicken strips for 3-4 minutes or until lightly charred. Thinner chicken strips cook quicker but can aso burn faster so watch them! Remove from the pan and set aside on a plate.
  • Cook the vegetables: Same skillet, sauté the bell peppers and onion over medium heat. Add a tablespoon of oil if needed, salt and pepper. Stir intermittently until done. About 5 minutes.
  • Return the cooked chicken to the pan and stir with the vegetables.
  • Add a little sauce on the wrap/tortilla, crunchy vegetables, chicken and extra toppings like sauces, sour cream, pickles, salsa, avocado or guacamole.

Notes

Why This Overnight Marinade Works

Because the combination of spices, lime juice, olive oil, and sauces prevents the chicken from turning white and giving a rubbery texture.
Instead, the marinade tenderizes the chicken even better than yogurt or buttermilk when making curry.
Why? I have no idea of the science to this but I find that adding sauces into the marinade makes a phenominal flavorful marinade. 
To cook the chicken immediately without marinating, you can leave the sauces option out. Both coriander sauce and chipotle sauce were used in an effort to protect the chicken from toughening from the lime overnight and to add flavor. 
Using the sauce/s without an overnight marinade will still add flavor to the chicken, however, a much shorter time is required to marinate. 30 minutes to a maximu of 4 hours to develop flavor without compromising the chicken. 
This information is not from Google, it's from my home cooking tested techniques in the kitchen that work for me.  
Your comments and feedback are always welcome at the bottom of the post!
 
 

Nutrition

Calories: 287kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 20gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 48mgSodium: 1478mgFiber: 4gSugar: 6g
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