This recipe for Baked Chicken Fajitas uses just a few ingredients to make tender, juicy, and super easy chicken fajitas. Serve in a warm tortilla with sour cream, salsa, and fresh cilantro.
Sheet pan fajitas cook everything at once in the oven for a no-mess, easy prep meal idea any night of the week. If you're looking for another easy sheet pan dinner, check out this Chili Lime Chicken and Vegetables. It's so easy and everyone loves it.
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Baked Chicken Fajitas
If you're wondering how to make easy chicken fajitas, this is the recipe for you. Everything is seasoned and then baked together on a sheet tray in the oven. Serve in a warm flour tortilla with sour cream, salsa, and shredded cheese for a seriously quick, easy, and healthy meal. Even if the kiddos don't love veggies, they seem to love these sheet pan fajitas!
This recipe calls for chicken breasts, but you can start with tenderloins or chicken thighs, too. Just slice into strips along with peppers and onions, season, toss with oil, and bake.
This chicken recipe makes excellent chicken fajitas tacos, fajita burrito bowls or fajita chicken salad. These Mexican chicken fajitas are so versatile and can be enjoyed many ways. Sheet pan fajitas chicken is definitely the way to go!
Key Ingredients
- Chicken - boneless skinless chicken breasts work great, as do tenderloins and chicken thighs. Cut into 1" strips, and plan on ¼ lb for each person.
- Bell Peppers - for a nice presentation, use a variety of green, orange, yellow, and/or red peppers.
- Onions - you can use white, yellow, red, or a combination of onions.
- Fajita Seasoning - if you don't have this on hand, you can use one of the fajita seasoning mix recipes that we included in this post.
- Chili Powder - feel free to adjust this depending on how spicy you like your fajitas.
- Tortillas - small flour tortillas are what is most commonly used.
- Toppings - add your favorite fajita toppings such as sour cream, shredded cheese, salsa, shredded lettuce, and fresh cilantro.
How to Make Chicken Fajitas in the Oven
- Season the chicken. Add sliced chicken strips to a bowl and combine with the oil, garlic, and seasonings.
- Spread onto a sheet tray. Lightly spray a baking sheet and add the chicken and sliced peppers and onions. Spread in an even layer.
- Bake. Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 15-20 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through.
- Serve. Serve the fajitas on warmed flour tortillas, with shredded cheese, sour cream, salsa, and lettuce. Enjoy!
Simple Fajitas Seasoning
If you are looking for the best chicken fajita recipe, and wondering how to season chicken for fajitas, it starts with the seasonings. Here is a couple of fajita seasoning mixes you can make:
Homemade Fajita Seasoning #1:
- 4 teaspoon Chili Powder
- 1 Tablespoon Sugar
- 2 teaspoon Cumin
- 2 teaspoon Paprika
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- ½ teaspoon Cayenne
Simple Fajita Seasoning #2:
I don't usually have a fajita seasoning mix on hand so the recipe included in this simple fajita recipe is a mix I came up with using taco seasoning. It simplifies the recipe a little and tastes just as great. Here's a quick and simple chicken fajita recipe. Taco seasoning has a lot of the same ingredients. Add a few extra spices and you'll have the best-baked chicken fajita recipe.
- 1 Tablespoon Taco Seasoning
- 1 Tablespoon Minced Garlic
- ½ teaspoon Salt (or to taste)
- ¼ teaspoon pepper (or to taste
Frequently Asked Questions
If you're wondering how much chicken to plan on for this meal, here's a bit of a rule of thumb. If meat is the main dish, plan on ⅓ pound of chicken per person. Since you'll be using these homemade chicken fajitas recipe in a taco shell and with toppings, ¼ pound per person should be great.
That being said, if you're feeding teenage boys or big eaters, plan on ⅓ lb per person. This meal heats up great the next day so leftovers are always a bonus with these oven chicken fajitas.
Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 large Chicken Breasts Cut into 1" strips, plan on ¼ lb for each person
- 1 medium Red Pepper
- 1 medium Yellow Pepper
- 1 medium Orange Pepper
- 1 medium Onion White, yellow or red onion
- 2 Tablespoons Avocado Oil
- 1 Tablespoon Garlic minced
- 1 Tablespoon Taco Seasoning
- 1 teaspoon Chili Powder
- ½ teaspoon salt or salt to taste
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 8-10 small Tortillas Low carb tortillas if desired
- ½ cup Sour Cream if desired
- ½ cup Cheddar Cheese shredded
- ¼ cup Salsa
- 2 cups Lettuce shredded, if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Cut the chicken breasts into 1" strips add them to a medium-sized mixing bowl.
- Add the avocado oil, minced garlic, taco seasoning, chili powder, salt, and pepper.
- Mix all the chicken and seasonings together and be sure to coat all the chicken evenly.
- Cut the red, orange, and yellow peppers into ¾" strips or bite-sized pieces also. Cut the onions into ¾" stripes.
- Spray a 9 by 13" baking pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Add the chicken and the sliced vegetables. Spread everything out evenly on the baking pan.
- Bake in a preheated 400degree oven for 15-20 minutes or until the chicken is no longer pink in the middle and the veggies have light golden edges.
- Serve the fajitas on warmed flour tortillas, with shredded cheese, sour cream, salsa, and lettuce. Enjoy!
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These Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas are a quick and easy one-pan meal! This recipe only takes a few ingredients and is a healthy baked chicken fajitas recipe, ready in about 30 minutes.
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