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Smoky chicken fajitas with capsicum & onion
Spiced chicken strips seared with capsicum and red onion, piled into warm tortillas with avocado, yoghurt and salsa for a fun build-your-own dinner.
- 40 min · 20 min hands-on
- Serves 4
- Large heavy frying pan or cast-iron pan, mixing bowl, knife
- Contains milk, wheat, gluten, chilli
- Complete meal
One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 43 g · 35%
- Carbs 39 g · 31%
- Fat 19 g · 34%
- Fibre 7 g
Highest in this recipe
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Ingredients
Weights for 4 servings. Per-serve nutrition stays the same.
- 600 g
- 4 g
- 3 g
- 1 g
- 1 g
- 8 g
- 20 g
- 1 g
- 20 g
- 200 g
- 150 g
- 200 g
- 240 g
- 150 g
- 10 g
- 150 g
- 80 g
- 10 g
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Method
5 steps · about 40 min- In a bowl, mix the smoked paprika, cumin, oregano, chilli powder, garlic, 20 g lime juice, iodised salt and 10 g of the canola oil. Add the chicken strips and toss to coat. Leave for 10 minutes while you slice the vegetables.
- Heat a large heavy frying pan over high heat until very hot. Add the remaining 10 g oil, then the red and green capsicum and onion. Cook for 5–6 minutes, tossing only occasionally, until charred at the edges but still a little crisp. Tip onto a plate.
- Add the chicken to the hot pan in a single layer, in two batches if needed. Cook for 5–7 minutes, turning once the underside is browned, until the thickest strip reaches 75°C. Return the vegetables and toss together for 1 minute.
- Warm the tortillas in a dry frying pan for 15–20 seconds per side, or wrapped in foil in a low oven, so they fold without cracking. Toss the avocado with the remaining 10 g lime juice.
- Bring everything to the table: let everyone fill two tortillas with chicken and vegetables, avocado, a spoonful of yoghurt, salsa and coriander leaves.
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One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 43 g · 35%
- Carbs 39 g · 31%
- Fat 19 g · 34%
- Fibre 7 g
Highest in this recipe
Black shows one serve; the rest of each bar is left for the day. * Partial ingredient data.
Calculation limitations
- Further heating in this recipe is not covered by the food record or a reviewed cooking factor. Reported contributions remain estimates.
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Editorially reviewed for ingredient-method agreement, flavour structure, moisture control, practical timings and food-safety cues. Compound products and cross-contact remain label-dependent.
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- Skinless chicken breast, raw, cut into strips: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Smoked paprika: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Ground cumin: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Dried oregano: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Chilli powder: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Garlic, crushed: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Lime juice for the chicken: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Iodised salt: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Canola oil, divided: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Red capsicum, sliced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Green capsicum, sliced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Red onion, sliced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Small flour tortillas, 8 × about 30 g: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Avocado flesh, sliced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Lime juice for the avocado: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Plain natural yoghurt: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Tomato salsa: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Fresh coriander leaves: Whole-recipe edible weight.
AFCD attribution, data & methods
Food matches used for nutrition
- Skinless chicken breast, raw, cut into strips: Chicken, breast, lean flesh, raw
- Smoked paprika: Paprika, dry powder
- Ground cumin: Cumin (cummin) seed, dried, ground
- Dried oregano: Oregano, dried
- Chilli powder: Chilli (chili), dried, ground
- Garlic, crushed: Garlic, peeled, fresh, raw
- Lime juice for the chicken: Juice, lime
- Iodised salt: Salt, table, iodised
- Canola oil, divided: Oil, canola
- Red capsicum, sliced: Capsicum, red, fresh, raw
- Green capsicum, sliced: Capsicum, green, fresh, raw
- Red onion, sliced: Onion, mature, red skinned, raw
- Small flour tortillas, 8 × about 30 g: Bread, tortilla, white, commercial
- Avocado flesh, sliced: Avocado, hass, raw
- Lime juice for the avocado: Juice, lime
- Plain natural yoghurt: Yoghurt, natural, regular fat (~3%)
- Tomato salsa: Sauce, salsa, tomato-based, commercial
- Fresh coriander leaves: Coriander, fresh, raw