Recipe: Tasty Fajitas Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Fajitas Stuffed Chicken Breasts. Heat the canola oil (for the veggies) in a pan over high heat. Cook the peppers, onion, salt, and pepper until soft and slightly caramelized. Transfer the cooked veggies to a bowl.

It combines all the things you love about fajitas in a tidy main dish. This recipe always impresses but is super simple and easy to make. Stuffed chicken recipes are always well received. You can have Fajitas Stuffed Chicken Breasts using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fajitas Stuffed Chicken Breasts

1. You need 2 of Tbl. grape seed oil.
2. You need 1/2 of each : yellow, green, orange, and red bell peppers, cut in slices.
3. Prepare 1/2 of onion , cut in slices.
4. It's of sea salt.
5. It's of fresh ground black pepper.
6. You need 4 oz of cream cheese.
7. It's 1/4 c. of shredded cheddar cheese.
8. Prepare 1/4 c. of pepper jack cheese.
9. You need 4 of chicken breasts.
10. Prepare 2 tsp of each : cumin, chili powder, garlic, salt, pepper (mixed together in bowl).
11. You need 2 Tbl of grape seed oil.

Before grilling, shake off excess marinade from. Slice a pocket in the chicken horizontally and fill the pocket with a heaping spoonful of the fajita mixture. Repeat for all chicken breasts and remove any excess fajita mixture from the pan. Air-Fryer Fajita-Stuffed Chicken I had all the ingredients for fajitas, but instead of heating up my big oven I decided to try out the air fryer.

Fajitas Stuffed Chicken Breasts step by step

1. Heat first two tablespoons of grapeseed oil on high. Add sliced bell peppers and onions. Sprinkle with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Cook on high until peppers are almost caramelized.
2. In a small bowl mixed together cooked peppers and onions and all the cheeses. Set aside.
3. Coat each chicken breast with spices on both sides. Cut a small pocket in each chicken breast and stuffed with bell pepper cheese mixture.
4. Add 2 tablespoons of grapeseed oil back into skillet and Heat on high. Place each stuffed chicken breast in the skillet and cook 5 minutes on each side.
5. Serve with Mexican style rice.

Since mine is a small one, I wanted to get as much filling as I could in each stuffed chicken breast. Season the chicken on both sides with fajita seasoning. Next, slice all your vegetables and set aside. Butterfly your chicken breasts (slicing the centre open, still leaving one side in tact), and begin to fill with the peppers, onions and cheese, and close. If Mexican chicken is your thing, you're gonna' flip over this ah-ma-zing fajita stuffed chicken recipe!