Boneless Chicken Recipe
Chicken Fajitas in Peanut Sauce
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If you prefer to serve your chicken fajita recipe without the flour tortillas, you can serve them as shown in the photo; simply arrange the chicken and sauce on the plate and add some salad as a garnish. Another option is to serve the chicken and sauce mixture separately from the tortillas and let people assemble their own. Kids especially would love that. This chicken fajita recipe is one of the more unusual breast chicken recipes and this is not a traditional Mexican recipe because fajitas are from Tex-Mex cuisine, but it is really flavorful and well worth making if you fancy something different.
Chicken Fajitas in Peanut Sauce
This is one of the tastiest breast chicken recipes and it combines Asian and Mexican flavors very nicely. If you like international recipes, you will definitely like this chicken fajita recipe. Unusual flavors such as coffee, peanut butter, cinnamon, lime, and chili are combined to make a smooth and flavorful sauce for the chicken fajitas. This is quite a healthy recipe and there are no high fat ingredients. As with a lot of Mexican inspired chicken recipes, a lot of the flavor comes from the fresh vegetables and spices called for in the recipe.
This is a very good chicken fajita recipe to try out if you want to try something a little bit different. Chicken is a very versatile meat to cook with and can stand up to even the strongest flavored sauces, with this unusual recipe being a great example of that fact. People who enjoy trying different sauces will enjoy the coffee, lime, cinnamon and more featured in this tasty chicken fajitas recipe. When you start cooking with chicken and making different chicken breast recipes you will soon discover how versatile this meat really is and how many different dishes from different cuisines you can easily prepare.
The chicken in this Mexican Asian chicken recipe is broiled rather than pan-fried. The result is not that different except it will not have the smoky flavor or grill marks of grilled chicken, the oily finish you can expect from pan-fried chicken or the slow cooking time of poached chicken. Broiling is a good way to cook chicken quickly and healthily for many easy chicken recipes, including for a chicken fajita recipe.
Asian Mexican Fusion Fajitas
Ingredients -
1 ¼ lbs boneless, skinless chicken breast
1 small chipotle in adobo
6 tortillas
8 oz sugar snap or stringed snow peas
4 oz red bell pepper slices
1 lime, in 8 wedges
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon instant coffee granules
¾ teaspoon chili powder
1 tablespoon water
1 ½ tablespoons peanut butter
8 oz tomato sauce
1 scallion
Salt and pepper
Oil or spray oil to grease pan
Mexican cheese to serve
Preparation:
Season the chicken with salt and pepper and broil it until cooked for 8 to 10 minutes on a greased broiler pan, turning it once.
Seed the chipotle chili.
Trim the scallion and cut it into 1-inch pieces. Put the chipotle, scallion, peanut butter, tomato sauce, chili powder, water, coffee granules and cinnamon in a blender or food processor and process until smooth. Scrape this sauce into a pan, bring to the boil over a medium high heat, and simmer 4 minutes, stirring several times. Cover to keep warm.
Place the red pepper slices in a microwave safe dish, loosely cover and microwave for 2 or 3 minutes on high.
Stir in snow peas or sugar snap peas and microwave for another 2 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper.
Place the tortillas on a plate. Cover with a paper towel and microwave on high for 40 seconds.
Chop the chicken into small pieces. Spoon the chicken, peppers and peas into the tortillas.
Add some Mexican cheese if you like.
Sprinkle lime over the fajitas, roll them up, and pour the peanut sauce over the top.
(Serves 4)