Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Mike's Chicken Fajitas
Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, Recipe of Homemade Mike's Chicken Fajitas. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Let's face it, cooking is not just a top priority at the lifestyles of every person, woman, or child on the planet. In actuality, far too people have made learning to cook a priority within their lives. Which usually means that individuals frequently exist on convenience foods and boxed mixes rather than just taking the time to prepare healthful food for our families and our own personal enjoyment.
The same holds true for lunches once we usually add to your can of soup or box of macaroni and cheese or any other similar product instead of putting our creative efforts into building a quick and easy yet delicious lunch. You may see many ideas in this article and the hope is that these thoughts won't just allow you to get off to a great start for ending the lunch rut most of us seem to find ourselves at at a certain point or another but and to test new things on your very own.
There are many who will assert that ingesting healthy food costs a lot more than just cooking the prepackaged meals that pack in the additives and calories. The fact of the matter is that when you compare the costs with the medical bills of their near future for a failure to do so, they seem quite slight by comparison. Yes, superior food costs additional money. Oftentimes, that's a simple fact of life. But by learning portion control and eating the proper portions you just may find that you are now spending less as you adjust to the right levels of food which you should be consuming so as to keep a healthy and active lifestyle.
Many things affect the quality of taste from Mike's Chicken Fajitas, starting from the type of ingredients, then the selection of fresh ingredients, the ability to cut dishes to how to make and serve them. Don't worry if you want to prepare Mike's Chicken Fajitas delicious at home, because if you already know the trick then this dish can be used as an extraordinary special treat.
As for the number of servings that can be served to make Mike's Chicken Fajitas is 4 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.
Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Mike's Chicken Fajitas estimated approx 30 mins.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook Mike's Chicken Fajitas using 42 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ah fajitas! No matter how you make em'' they're always juicy, flavorful and spicy TexMexy goodness!!
All of my 6, 7, 8 and 10 year old culinary students made 20 pounds [chicken alone] of these TexMex Fajita Bento Boxes for our local women's shelter and their children last night. I'm so proud of all of them. They all worked SO late and SO hard. These were beyond delicious and totally appreciated by everyone kiddos!
Ingredients and spices that need to be Get to make Mike's Chicken Fajitas:
- ● For The Chicken Brine [2 hour brine]
- 1/4 Cup Kosher Salt
- 1/4 Granulated Sugar
- 1 tbsp Granulated Garlic Powder
- 1 tbsp Granulated Onion Powder
- 1 tbsp Ground Cumin
- 3 tbsp Black Pepper Corns
- ● For The Protein
- 2 Pounds Fat Free Skinless Chicken Breasts [thinned 2" stripped]
- ● For The Vegetables
- 2 Cups Cilantro [reserve half]
- as needed Red Onions [julienned]
- as needed White Onions [julienned]
- 2 Jalapeños [reserve one for guacamole]
- 1 LG Green Red & Yellow Bell Pepper [julienned]
- as needed Fresh Flour Tortillas
- ● For The Fajita Seasonings
- 2 teaspoons Chili Powder
- 1 tsp Granulated Onion Powder
- 1 tsp Granulated Garlic Powder
- 1/2 tsp Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- 1 tsp Granulated Sugar
- 1/2 Cayenne Pepper
- 1 tsp Ground Cumin
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 tbsp Corn Starch [+ = parts water - to thicken]
- as needed Chicken Broth
- 1 tbsp Fresh Minced Garlic
- ● For The Guacamole
- 2 LG Fresh Avocados
- 1/2 Cup Tomatoes [diced]
- to taste Minced White Onions
- 1 tsp Paprika
- 1 tbsp Minced Garlic
- ● For The Options/Sides [as needed]
- Sour Cream
- Red Salsa
- Green Salsa
- Lime Wedges
- Shreadded Mexican 3 Cheeses
- Jumbo Tiger Shrimp
- Strips Porterhouse Steak
Steps to make Mike's Chicken Fajitas
- Trim any fat from your chicken breasts.
- Cube your chicken into 2" strips and brine your chicken in ice cold water for 2 hours.
- Next, fry your thin chicken strips with seasonings and a splash of beer or broth for 5 minutes tightly covered. You'll want to essentially steam your chicken and its seasonings.
- Add to chopped vegetables and fry under sealed lid for 5 minutes longer.
- Serve your fajitas on a sizzling hot cast iron skillet like this.
- Serve fajitas with sides of salas, sour cream & homemade quacamole.
- These are the TexMex Bento Boxes my students put together for the women's shelter.
- Stack em' and pack em' any way you choose!
- Or, enjoy these with Porterhouse steak strips or jumbo shrimp!
- Season and grill a Porterhouse steak and slice into thin strips.
- Jumbo Tiger Shrimp pictured. Fry 4 minutes turning once or, until pink/red in color.
- Serve with any of the options listed above and ice cold Mexican beers in frosty thick mugs. Enjoy!
While this is certainly not the end all be guide to cooking easy and quick lunches it is excellent food for thought. The hope is that will get your creative juices flowing so you are able to prepare wonderful lunches for your own family without the need to accomplish too much heavy cooking at the approach.
So that's going to wrap this up for this special food Steps to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Mike's Chicken Fajitas. Thanks so much for your time. I'm sure you can make this at home. There's gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don't forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!