How To Make Healthy Chicken Fajitas
For this fajitas recipe, chicken and quinoa are used in place of the usual beef and tortillas, making it low-carb and low cholesterol.
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking: 10 minutes
Total: 20 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
- 16ozchicken stripcooked
- orange bell pepperjulienned
- ½ red bell pepperjulienned
- ½ green bell pepperjulienned
- ½ white onionjulienned
- 1cuplow sodium chicken broth
- 2cupsquinoacooked
- 1tbspmongolian sauce
- 1tspolive oil
- ½ tspgarlicminced
For Seasoning:
- 1lemonjuiced
- 1tsppepper
- ½ tspcayenne pepper
- ½ tspred chili flakes
- ½ tspsalt
- ½ tspgarlic powder
- ½ tsponion powder
Instructions
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Mix chicken strips with seasonings and lemon juice and set aside.
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Heat olive oil in a medium pan on medium heat and add the garlic, sautéing for about 1 minute. Quickly add the chicken broth and stir to avoid burning the garlic.
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Add in the chicken and peppers, cover and cook on medium for about 5 minutes.
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Then, add onion and remove from heat once the broth is bubbling and the peppers look fully cooked.
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Mix Mongolian sauce with quinoa.
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Serve chicken and veggies alongside prepared quinoa.
Nutrition
- Calories: 679.74kcal
- Fat: 23.21g
- Saturated Fat: 3.84g
- Trans Fat: 0.06g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 7.95g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 9.89g
- Carbohydrates: 83.75g
- Fiber: 9.58g
- Sugar: 1.53g
- Protein: 36.61g
- Cholesterol: 54.43mg
- Sodium: 899.91mg
- Calcium: 90.68mg
- Potassium: 1127.14mg
- Iron: 5.60mg
- Vitamin A: 79.51µg
- Vitamin C: 13.16mg
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