Chicken Fajitas are a quick and easy meal with marinated boneless chicken breasts, sautéed onions, bell peppers, and topped with chipotle lime crema. You’ll love these cast iron chicken fajitas.
I love quick and easy meals for our busy weeknights. We cook a lot of our meals in cast iron. These grilled chicken fajitas are super easy to make. Simple to make and perfect for everyday meals or the weekend.
I love how easy it is to make chicken fajitas at home. Don’t own a cast iron skillet? Buy one here!
Chicken Fajitas Marinade
Step 1: Place the marinade ingredients in a large zip-style bag and press around with your fingers. Place the flattened chicken in the bag and refrigerate for 2 to 24 hours.
How to make Cast Iron Chicken Fajitas
Step 1: Heat 2 tablespoons of corn oil in a large skillet over medium to high heat. Brown the chicken breasts on both sides, about 3 minutes each side. Use tongs to turn chicken.
Step 2: Remove the browned chicken, place on a plate or a small sheet pan lined with aluminum foil. Cover with aluminum foil to keep warm.
Step 3: Saute sliced bell peppers and yellow onion in the same pan you cooked the chicken, over medium to low heat. Add a little more corn oil if needed as they cook. Use a wooden spoon to stir occasionally. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Cook until softened but still a bit firm, about 8-10 minutes.
Step 4: Slice the chicken into strips and place back in the cooked peppers and onions.
Step 5: Make the chipotle lime crema by stirring together sour cream, mayonnaise, lime juice, pinch of salt, and chopped cilantro. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator until ready to serve the fajitas.
Step 6: Serve the fajitas on flour or corn tortillas and top with desired toppings such as chipotle lime crema, diced fresh tomatoes, sliced avocados, and Mexican blend shredded cheese.
Corn oil is an all-purpose cooking oil that is a smart heart-healthy choice for your family. There are so many great uses include baking, grilling, sautéing, stir frying, or mixing up a marinade or dressing. Oil has a neutral taste, therefore the natural flavors of your food shine through.
Don’t be scared of cooking in cast iron! Lodge Cast Iron has some great tips of how to keep your cast iron in tip top shape! They also have a great video of how to easily season your cast iron in the oven!
These pans are so easy to maintain and clean. We like to keep them hung on the wall on a hanger my husband made. I keep the smaller cast iron pans in the drawer below the oven.
How to clean your cast iron skillet
Do you know that you can crack a cast iron pan if you change the temperature of it too quickly? And who wants to crack a vintage cast iron skillet?! I wait for about 5 minutes after cooking a meal for my cast iron skillet to cool, then run it under VERY hot water.
While some people say never to use to use soap, I have no issues with using a little Dawn dish soap to clean my cast iron along with a dish cloth. Clean the pan and then dry the outside and inside of the pan thoroughly with a clean, dry paper towel.
Then spray the inside of the pan with cooking spray or a tablespoon of canola oil. Spread the oil or cooking spray around with a clean, dry paper towel. And that’s it.
For more Cast Iron Recipes be sure and try Cast Iron Pizza, Spinach Quiche Recipe, Mexican Shredded Chicken, Buttermilk Fried Chicken Recipe, Easy Apple Fritters, Homemade Apple Crisp, and Fried Apple Hand Pies.
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Cast Iron Chicken Fajitas
Equipment
Ingredients
Chicken Fajitas
- 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 3-4 bell peppers red, green, and orange, sliced
- 2 medium yellow onions sliced
- 2 tablespoons corn oil
Chicken Marinade:
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ¼ cup whiskey or bourbon
- ¼ cup corn oil
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- salt and black pepper to taste
Chipotle lime crema:
- 1 cup full-fat sour cream
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- ½ teaspoon ground chipotle pepper
- 1-2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro
- pinch of salt
Chicken Fajita toppings:
- Freshly chopped tomatoes
- Mexican blend shredded cheese
- Cilantro finely chopped
Instructions
Chicken Marinade
- In a large zip-style bag add the marinade ingredients and push around on the outside of the bag with your fingers to combine.
- Lightly flatten the chicken by placing one piece at a time inside a plastic bag or between two pieces of plastic wrap. Use a wooden rolling pin or a meat tenderizer to flatten the chicken slightly and make it even thickness.
- Place each piece of flattened chicken into the marinade. Place in the refrigerator for 2 hours and up to 24 hours.
Chicken Fajitas
- Heat 2 tablespoons of corn oil in a large skillet over medium to high heat. Brown the chicken breasts on both sides, about 3 minutes each side. Use tongs to turn chicken.
- Remove the browned chicken, place on a plate or a small sheet pan lined with aluminum foil. Cover with aluminum foil to keep warm.
- Saute sliced bell peppers and yellow onion in the same pan you cooked the chicken, over medium to low heat. Add a little more corn oil if needed as they cook. Use a wooden spoon to stir occasionally. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Cook until softened but still a bit firm, about 8-10 minutes.
- Slice the chicken into strips and place back in the cooked peppers and onions.
- Make the chipotle lime crema by stirring together the sour cream, mayonnaise, lime juice, pinch of salt, and chopped cilantro. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator until ready to serve the fajitas.
- Serve the fajitas on flour or corn tortillas and top with desired toppings such as chipotle lime crema, diced fresh tomatoes, sliced avocados, and Mexican blend shredded cheese.
Nutrition
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Kelly McGuire says
This is really good! I used a really nice olive oil istead (my preference)
and omitted the chipoltle (too over powering) and used my Black Lodge Skillet and it was just amazing! What a great recipe and something to cook indoors vs a grill during Winter. 5 stars!
Jessica Robinson says
Glad to hear you loved it!
Latte Lindsay says
I used to work in a Mexican place and they always insisted that fajitas are cooked in a cast iron pan. I have no idea why, but they always taste better when cooked in a cast iron pan or skillet 🙂
Brittany Vantrease says
I love chicken fajitas! The store that I shop at used to sell the ingredients in a bundle and I’d throw them into the crock pot, but I haven’t seen them there in a while. I’ll definitely try this!
Joanna says
I have never tried to make chicken fajitas, even if it’s such a simple recipe. I do like it though, I love the flavours of the peppers and chicken combined together. I might give it a try soon.