Cilantro Lime Fajita Salad With Honey Lime Vinaigrette

Nicole Valdez
Nicole Valdez @cook_2922192
San Antonio, Texas

Cilantro Lime Fajita Salad With Honey Lime Vinaigrette

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Ingredients

  1. Honey Lime vinaigrette
  2. 2Limes juiced
  3. 2/3 cupCilantro
  4. 2 cloveGarlic
  5. 2 tbspHoney
  6. 1/2 cupLight olive oil
  7. 2 tbspWhite vinegar
  8. 1 tspSalt
  9. Chicken Marinade
  10. 1/2 cupCilantro
  11. 2Limes juiced
  12. 2 tspSalt
  13. 2 cloveGarlic
  14. 1 tspCumin (comino)
  15. 1 tspChili powder
  16. 1/4 cupOlive oil
  17. Fajita Salad
  18. 4Chicken breast (cut into stripes)
  19. 1large Yellow onion (peeled and sliced)
  20. 1large Yellow bell pepper (seeds removed and sliced)
  21. 2 headRomaine lettuce (chopped)
  22. 1Avocado (sliced)
  23. 3/4 cupCherry tomatoes

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Place all ingredients for Honey Lime vinaigrette in blender and blend together until everything is well blended. Then refrigerate.

  2. 2

    Using same blender (don't need to wash out), place all ingredients for marinade in blender and purée.

  3. 3

    Pour 1/2 marinade into ziplock bag and add chicken to marinade

  4. 4

    Pour other 1/2 of marinade in ziplock bag and add sliced bell pepper and onion.

  5. 5

    Let them marinade overnight or for several hours.

  6. 6

    Prepare salad by placing lettuce, avocado sliced, and cherry tomatoes on each plates.

  7. 7

    Heat a large sauté pan on high. Add onion and bell pepper (not the marinade) to hot pan and cook quickly until the veggies are still crisp but golden brown in spots. Remove from pan and keep warm.

  8. 8

    In same pan add chicken and marinade and cook until chicken is no longer pink, and slightly caramelized. Then toss in onion and bell pepper.

  9. 9

    Top salads with chicken mix. And drizzle with the cilantro lime vinaigrette.

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