Fajita Stuffed Hen Breasts

These infants mix all of the belongings you love about fajitas in a single deliciously stuffed piece of hen. They appear fancy and spectacular, however are surprisingly easy to make. With just a bit preparation and recent components, you’ll have a scrumptious meal very quickly that can completely exhibit your chef abilities.

For extra fajita recipes, strive our Chicken Fajita Salad or our Sizzling Skillet Chicken Fajitas.

Why Our Recipe

• Hen breasts stuffed filled with fajita veggies and gooey pepper jack cheese.
• Use thick breasts, pre-butterflied hen, or pound them out skinny.
• Seasoned with our customized Fajita spice mix so no packets right here.

These juicy hen breasts are flattened or “butterflied” and full of sautéed peppers and onions, after which baked with scrumptious, Pepper Jack cheese to create all kinds of flavors popping off in your mouth. Whereas the hen bakes, whip up a aspect salad, Mexican rice, or veggies. This flavorful and simple dish is so good, it’ll grow to be a weeknight go-to!

Ingredient Notes

• Boneless Skinless Hen Breasts: Thick ones are good so you’ll be able to butterfly them. If they’re skinny, you’ll wish to simply pound them out to a good thickness. You may also purchase hen that’s already butterflied at many grocery shops.
• Olive Oil: You should use any impartial cooking oil like avocado or vegetable oil as properly.
• Mushrooms: Both white or cremini works right here, relying in your desire.
• Bell Pepper: We like to make use of a combination of purple and inexperienced for colour and taste since purple have somewhat little bit of sweetness.
• Onion: White or yellow onions will work right here.
• Pepper Jack Cheese: We wish to carry the flavour and the warmth right here. Monterey jack could be the second-place selection.
• Lime Juice: Contemporary limes are finest, and also you’ll want about two for this recipe. Bottled lime juice may even work.
• Fajita Seasoning: Retailer-bought Fajita seasoning works properly. We like making our personal so we are able to higher management the flavour.
• Purple Pepper Flakes: Provides a refined warmth, which you’ll regulate in accordance with your desire.

Fajita Seasoning

Whereas you could find pre-made fajita seasoning in just about any grocery retailer, we advocate making your own! Every model differs in its ratios and high quality of spices, so utilizing our spice combine will make sure you get the flavour outcomes as meant. It solely takes a number of further minutes.

Purple pepper flakes: One other professional of creating your personal spice combine is which you can management the spice degree—if your loved ones isn’t as spice tolerant, you’ll be able to cut back the quantity of purple pepper flakes you add in. Or, in case you’re actually searching for some warmth, be happy so as to add extra!

Strategies for Stuffing Hen

As a way to stuff a hen breast, you need to both reduce it open or pound it out skinny. You should purchase hen already butterflied at some grocery shops, however the actual difficulty is that hen breasts differ so much in thickness. Right here’s what you do primarily based on the hen that you’ve.

Butterfly Technique (For Thick Hen Breasts): That is the most typical technique for stuffing hen breasts. You merely slice the hen horizontally, stopping simply earlier than chopping it during on the again aspect. Once you open it up, it seems to be like butterfly wings. This works finest when the hen breast is plump and thick.

Pounding Skinny (For Skinny Hen Breasts): In case your hen breasts are already on the skinny aspect, you’ll be able to place them between two sheets of plastic wrap or parchment paper and use a meat mallet (or perhaps a rolling pin) to pound them to a good thickness. This offers you a flat floor that’s simple to roll up across the stuffing. Simply watch out to not over-pound, or the hen might tear.