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Look no further than your grill for healthy and easy chicken fajitas—throw them over romaine hearts for added crunch. This fajita salad recipe is gluten free and can be healthy with chicken breast or if you want more flavor, cook this fajitas recipe with chicken thigh or leg meat. The cumin lime dressing is wonderfully refreshing and compliments the fajita salad perfectly.

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

The ingredients needed to make Fajita Lime Chicken Salad:

1. Take Salad
2. Get 1 Newman's own light lime dressing (sub any lime dressing, but this one is really good)
3. Prepare 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. Get 1 bunch red leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
6. Make ready 1 bunch green leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
7. Take Fajita topping
8. Get 2 tbsp olive oil
9. Prepare 1 large yellow sweet onion, cut into strips
10. Take 1 anaheim or poblano pepper, cut into strips.
11. Take 3 assorted bell peppers (red, green and yellow for example), cut into strips
12. Prepare Chicken marinade
13. Get 1 Serrano or Jalapeno pepper, minced
14. Get 2 chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
15. Prepare 2 clove garlic, minced
16. Make ready 1 tsp ground cumin
17. Take 1 tsp thyme
18. Make ready 1/2 tsp oregano
19. Get 2 tbsp olive oil

Tender, juicy lime and chili-marinated chicken with fresh bell peppers, onions, garlic and avocado slices will be sure to hit the spot. Enter this scrumptious, and incredibly simple, chicken fajita salad with peppers and onions, fresh avocado slices and crumbled queso fresco. This healthy and easy chicken kale salad is a play on classic chicken fajitas, but without the tortillas. Get the recipe from Food & Wine.

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.

For this healthy play on fajitas, flour tortillas are replaced with kale, served with seared chicken, charred vegetables and black beans. Turn chicken fajitas into a salad by spooning the mixture of spicy chicken, bell pepper and onions over lettuce and topping with beans, tomato, cheese and olives. Serve with the creamy lime and cilantro dressing and flour tortilla wedges or baked tortilla chips. Chili powder and lime juice put the fajita in this quick and easy chicken salad for four. Mix lime juice and chili powder until blended; pour over chicken in shallow dish.

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