Maximize time and consolidate dishes by making my quick and easy recipe for Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas. My secret ingredient to making the most flavorful fajitas is roasting citrus fruit alongside the chicken, bell peppers, and red onion.
We eat Mexican food every Tuesday. It’s kind of an unspoken rule in my home. I switch up and alternate between shredded chicken tacos, baked beef tacos, and mahi mahi fish tacos as well as various fajita combos. My favorite way to cook fajitas is on the grill. However, my husband loves this recipe for sheet pan chicken fajitas.
What I love about this recipe is that I use a variety of citrus to elevate the homemade fajita seasoning and bring out additional flavors you might not typically find in traditional fajitas.
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Why this Recipe Works
Easy Clean Up – Need I say more! Everything is cooked on one pan making for a super easy cleanup.
Prep Ahead – Like I mentioned above I love to prep this meal the night before or even the morning before I’m going to cook fajitas, so I can simply pour on the sheet pan and let dinner cook while I tend to homework and other home activities.
Healthy Clean Dinner – This dinner involves just protein and veggies with no artificial flavors, dyes, or even an abundance of sodium. If you are looking to eat healthier you can eat just the chicken and veggies while the rest of your family
Directions
First, preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
While oven preheats slice bell peppers and onions and place in a mixing bowl. Drizzle with one tablespoon grapeseed oil and sprinkle on 2 tablespoons fajita seasoning. Mix well and spread on to a large sheet pan.
Place the chicken breast in the same bowl that the peppers and onions were in. Drizzle with remaining one tablespoon of grape seed oil and sprinkle the remaining fajita seasoning on top. Mix well and place on the sheet pan.
Zest half the orange and lime on top of the veggies and chicken. Then slice the fruit into wedges or slices. Squeeze juice of orange and lime over the veggies and chicken and place the fruit on the sheet pan to cook with the fajitas.
Place the sheet pan in the oven and bake for 30 minutes or until the internal temperature of the chicken reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
Remove the sheet pan from the oven, slice chicken and serve.
Recipe FAQs
I find that thin slices of cooked chicken breast work best OR simply chop into bite size pieces. Regardless you don’t want thick pieces since you will be wrapping the chicken into a tortilla and will want smaller bite-size pieces.
For this sheet pan fajita recipe I cook the chicken breast whole so that the chicken remains moist and juicy. Then, I slice the chicken breast once it’s done cooking. Make sure to let the chicken rest for a few minutes prior to cutting.
My recipe doesn’t call for marinating the chicken; however, for optimal flavors I suggest at least 4 hours and no more then 24 hours of marinating in the fajita seasoning tossed with a neutral oil.
Shredded Mexican Cheddar (a blend of cheeses), Cotija, Manchego, queso fresco, and even Colby Jack pair well with fajitas.
When you dine at a restaurant and order fajitas they come to your table sizzling hot where the meat and vegetables are still cooking on the extremely hot platter. They are typically accompanied with tortillas, cheese, sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, and lettuce.
Tips & Tricks
Here are a few of my favorite tips and tricks whenever I make chicken fajitas.
- Toppings – We love to serve our chicken fajitas on flour tortillas but if you have a gluten allergy you can make my homemade corn tortillas recipe.
- Tortillas – The sky is the limit when it comes to toppings. We stick with guacamole and sour cream (for those who can eat dairy). My husband loves to add some of his favorite chipotle Tobasco sauce to his fajitas. You can also add shredded cheese to your fajitas, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, etc. You get the point! The sky is the limit.
- Entertaining – If you have older kids and/or entertaining you could place the sheet pan on the table as well as all the tortillas and toppings and let everyone make their own.
What to Serve with Fajitas
If you are wondering what to serve with fajitas here are a few of my favorite Mexican recipes.
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Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas
Equipment
- 1 Mixing Bowl
- 1 Oven
- 1 Sheet Pan
Ingredients
- 1 red bell pepper sliced
- 1 orange bell pepper sliced
- 1 yellow bell pepper sliced
- 1 green bell pepper sliced
- 1 red onion sliced
- 2 tablespoons grape seed oil divided
- ¼ cup fajita seasoning divided
- 1 orange zested, sliced, and juiced
- 1 lime zested, sliced, and juiced
- 3 boneless skinless chicken breast
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
- While oven preheats slice bell peppers and onions and place in a mixing bowl. Drizzle with one tablespoon grapeseed oil and sprinkle on 2 tablespoons fajita seasoning. Mix well and spread on to a large sheet pan.1 red bell pepper, 1 orange bell pepper, 1 yellow bell pepper, 1 green bell pepper, 1 red onion, 2 tablespoons grape seed oil divided, ¼ cup fajita seasoning
- Place the chicken breast in the same bowl that the peppers and onions were in. Drizzle with remaining one tablespoon of grape seed oil and sprinkle the remaining fajita seasoning on top. Mix well and place on the sheet pan.2 tablespoons grape seed oil divided, 3 boneless skinless chicken breast, ¼ cup fajita seasoning
- Zest half the orange and lime on top of the veggies and chicken. Then slice the fruit into wedges or slices. Squeeze juice of orange and lime over the veggies and chicken and place the fruit on the sheet pan to cook with the fajitas.1 orange, 1 lime
- Place the sheet pan in the oven and bake for 30 minutes or until the internal temperature of the chicken reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Remove the sheet pan from the oven, slice chicken and serve.
Notes
- Toppings – We love to serve our chicken fajitas on flour tortillas but if you have a gluten allergy you can make my homemade corn tortillas recipe.
- Tortillas – The sky is the limit when it comes to toppings. We stick with guacamole and sour cream (for those who can eat dairy). My husband loves to add some of his favorite chipotle Tabasco sauce to his fajitas. You can also add shredded cheese to your fajitas, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, etc. The sky is the limit.
- Entertaining – If you have older kids and/or entertaining you could place the sheet pan on the table as well as all the tortillas and toppings and let everyone make their own.
- Prep Ahead – You can slice the vegetables up to a day ahead of time as well as the chicken. Storing both in separate bags/containers.
Cheri mello
THANKS for Sharing❤️ And Thank You for Sharing Of How you do Veggies During the Week!! THAT makes it less hectic For sure ! This IS a GREAT way To try It And I Didn’t think of Adding Fruit TO IT ! That REALLY will give it Some Good taste G-d Bless ❤️
Katie
Hi Cheri, thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. This is actually what my family is eating tonight for dinner! Hope you enjoy it as much as they do!