Dinner
Chicken fajita bowls
The dinner everyone builds themselves, which is how you get a picky eater to eat vegetables.
- Servings
- 4
- Total
- 25 min
- Skill
- Easy
What you need
Ingredients
Making for
4 servings
- Chicken breast0.5 lb
- Bell pepper0.5 each
- Jasmine rice (dry)0.25 cup
- Cheddar slices1 each
- Romaine lettuce0.5 cup
- Limes0.25 each
- Taco seasoning0.5 tbsp
Quantities scale linearly with servings. Round to the nearest practical amount when shopping.
Steps
- 1
Peppers and onion first, hard and fast
Two bell peppers sliced, into a very hot pan with 1 tbsp oil for 5 minutes, barely stirred, until they have black edges. Those charred edges are the entire flavour of fajitas and gentle cooking gives you none of them.
5:00
- 2
Peppers out, chicken in
1.5 lb of chicken breast in strips, seasoned with 2 tsp of taco seasoning, into the same pan. Six to eight minutes, turned once. Cooking them together steams both.
7:00
- 3
Build it as a bar, not a plate
Rice in the bowls, then chicken and peppers, then everything else on the table in separate bowls: cheese, lettuce, tomato, lime. A child who assembles their own dinner eats considerably more of it than one handed a finished plate.
Coach's notes
- The self-assembly is the nutritional strategy here, not a serving suggestion. It is the most reliable vegetable delivery on this site.
- Leftovers become the quesadilla recipe the next day.
- About 42 g of protein a serving before toppings.
- Taco seasoning varies wildly in salt. Check the label or make your own with cumin, paprika and garlic powder.