Recipe This | Air Fryer Chicken Fajitas (2024)

Air Fryer ChickenFajitas. How to prep and air frychicken fajitas to make a delicious air fryer chicken fajitas dinner. These fajitasare cooked with 3 different peppers, red onion and chicken breast. Loaded with fajitasseasoning and perfect for a quick air fryer dinner.

Air Fryer ChickenFajitas

I remember the day like it was yesterday, when I had my first ever chicken fajitas dinner. It was the 7^th of July 2005.

We were on our first family holiday in the sun and had swapped raining Manchester in England for red hot Lanzarote in the beautiful Canary Islands.

It wasjust me, Dominic and Kyle and in the area we were staying, there was a beachsidestreet loaded with lots of great restaurants and bars.

We hadtwo favourite places. One was an Italian and made the most amazing dessertswith delicious homemade chocolate sauce, as well as the best pizzas I have evertried.

Furtherdown the road was a typical Spanish restaurant with lots of seating out in thesunshine with a bit of everything on the menu.

We musthave ordered at both of these places at least 4 times each during our 2 weekholiday.

It wasat the Spanish restaurant one lunch time that I had chicken fajitas. They weresizzling, the chicken was crispy, and the peppers looked chargrilled and theywere wonderfully spicy.

Fromthat moment on, I was hooked on chicken fajitas and today I want to show youjust how easy it is make air fryerchicken fajitas.

Cooking Chicken FajitasIn Air Fryer

If you want something ridiculously easy to cook in the air fryer, that requires hardly any prep time and is also healthy, then let me introduce you to chicken fajitas in the air fryer.

I feel like I want to shout out toyou just how EASY, they are. Because make these chicken fajitas once inthe air fryer and there is no going back!

Perfect for lazy days. Perfectfor Keto and low carb followers and perfect for making into a salad for mealprep lunches.

Here it is portioned up forme for lunch:

Air FryerChicken Thigh Fajitas

Looking back at my obsessionwith air fryer chicken fajitas, there is JUST one thing I wish I haddone differently. That is using boneless and skinless chicken thighs instead ofchicken breast.

Living in Portugal it can behard work getting boneless and skinless chicken thighs and I go over the borderinto Spain to get some good quality ones. You either end up at a butcher thatdoes low quality thighs, or they fail to remove the bones properly.

Chicken thighs has an awesomedepth of flavour, so if you can get them, do make air fryer chicken thighsfajitas.

Air FryerChicken Fajita Dinner

If you are having an ultra-lazyday, then why not buy a chicken fajita dinner and cook it in the air fryer?

You know the ones that I amtalking about. The ones for sale in supermarkets such as Aldi’s whereeverything is already prepped in a box and you throw the ingredients into theair fryer when you get home.

I always wait until these are on clearance and then buy them and freeze them for later.

My Lazy ChickenFajitas

I always use chicken stroganoff in my chicken fajitas. Normallymade from chicken breast it is already sliced up when you purchase it from the butchers.It saves you chopping up the chicken and speeds up dinner.

If you don’t have chicken stroganoff you could use turkey stripsor other similar meat.

Copycat TacoBell Chicken Fajitas

Or if you are a big fan of taco bell you can use their fajitas seasoning when prepping your chicken fajitas.

It will make your fajitas more authentic to what you are used to eating when you eat out and use them in all types of fajitas.

Here is a link to buy Taco Bell fajitas seasoning online and you can save even more money by buying them in bulk.

Air FryerChicken Fajitas Ingredients & Gadgets

To make air fryer chicken fajitas the ingredients are straightforward and simple:

• Chicken Stroganoff – make a lazy version by using already sliced chicken such as stroganoff.

• 3 Mixed Peppers – I like to include a yellow, red and green pepper in my chicken fajitas as I like them to be colourful. But you can use any mix of your favourite colours or just go all green.

• Onion – I used a red onion in this recipe but you can swap red for a white onion if you prefer.

• Seasonings – I like to mix and match when I make fajitas. I used fajitas seasoning alongside chicken seasoning and salt and pepper. This is the fajitas seasoning I recommend.

• Extra Virgin Olive Oil – This makes sure that your chicken and vegetables stay moist but without it being too greasy. This is my favourite extra virgin olive oil that I use all the time.

As well as the main ingredients, an air fryer with a good air fryer basket is essential for making crispy chicken fajitas.

The air fryer oven just doesn’t compare. Though if you have not yet bought an air fryer, we recommend the Philips Air Fryer XL.

How To Air Fry ChickenFajitas?

Cooking chicken fajitas in the air fryer is so simple:

1. Peel and slice your red onion. Slice your mixed peppers.
2. Load everything into a bowl and mix with your hands.
3. Load everything into the air fryer basket and cook on a medium heat.
4. Finish your air fryer chicken fajitas on a low heat and serve.

More Air Fryer ChickenRecipes

Here at Recipe This we love sharing with our readers lots of awesome chicken recipes that they can cook in their air fryer.

The possibilities are endless and often chicken tastes better in an air fryer, then in the oven or in the deep fat fryer.

Here are a few of our other air fryer chicken favouritesfor you to try next:

• Air Fryer Rotisserie Chicken
• Air Fryer Roast Chicken Dinner
• Air Fryer KFC Chicken
• Air Fryer Chicken Breast
• Air Fryer Chicken For Tacos

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