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 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.

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)

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