Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, fajita lime chicken salad. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fajita lime chicken salad using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Fajita Lime Chicken Salad:

1. Prepare Salad
2. Take 1 Newman's own light lime dressing (sub any lime dressing, but this one is really good)
3. Make ready 1 celery heart (smallest, light green/yellow middle of a celery), sliced do not remove leaves
4. Make ready 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves
5. Get 1 bunch red leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
6. Prepare 1 bunch green leaf lettuce, cut or torn into bite size salad bits
7. Make ready Fajita topping
8. Get 2 tbsp olive oil
9. Make ready 1 large yellow sweet onion, cut into strips
10. Prepare 1 anaheim or poblano pepper, cut into strips.
11. Get 3 assorted bell peppers (red, green and yellow for example), cut into strips
12. Make ready Chicken marinade
13. Get 1 Serrano or Jalapeno pepper, minced
14. Make ready 2 chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
15. Make ready 2 clove garlic, minced
16. Take 1 tsp ground cumin
17. Make ready 1 tsp thyme
18. Prepare 1/2 tsp oregano
19. Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil

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Instructions to make Fajita Lime Chicken Salad:

1. Combine everything in Chicken Marinade section in a plastics zip lock bag or bowl and mix thoroughly. Add more oil if needed. Let sit for at least an hour, the longer it sits the more seasonings the chicken will absorb.
2. Combine everything in the Salad section in a large bowl and toss so it is thoroughly mixed together.
3. Cut up peppers and onions, set aside.
4. Put a small amount of oil in a skillet and warm to medium high. Add chicken letting as much seasoning and oil get into the skillet as possible. Cook until chicken is no longer pink. Remove from skillet and set aside.
5. Add onions to skillet and cook until clear and caramelized.
6. Add peppers to skillet and cook until soft. Turn the skillet let heat to high and mix chicken in with peppers. Stir every few seconds to blacken bits and pieces of the mixture.
7. When little blacked bits of meat and veggies are visible over about 30% of the mixture remove from heat and place over the bed of lettuce.
8. Add lime salad dressing to taste. Optional, add avocado or guacamole.

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