Chicken Fajita Rice
Chicken Fajita Rice

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chicken fajita rice. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Fajita Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Chicken Fajita Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken fajita rice using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Fajita Rice:
  1. Make ready unsalted butter, divided
  2. Prepare bell peppers (any color), diced
  3. Make ready yellow onion, diced
  4. Get garlic, minced
  5. Take long grain rice
  6. Get chili powder
  7. Prepare each ground cumin, smoked paprika, salt
  8. Get dried oregano
  9. Get diced green chilis
  10. Take Juice of 1 lime
  11. Prepare unsalted chicken broth
  12. Get sour cream
  13. Prepare cooked, shredded chicken
  14. Make ready shredded pepper jack cheese
Instructions to make Chicken Fajita Rice:
  1. In a large, deep skillet with a tight fitting lid, heat 2 tbsp of the butter. Once it's melted, add in the peppers and onion with a pinch of salt. Cook, stirring often, until they're softened…about 5-7 minutes. Then add the garlic and the additional tbsp of butter and cook another minute or so more, until fragrant.
  2. Turn the heat up to med-high and stir in the rice and seasonings. Let the rice toast for 3-4 minutes, stirring often. Then stir in the diced green chiles, broth, lime juice and sour cream until it's all integrated. Place the lid on and let it come to a low boil. Once at a boil, lower the heat to low and let it simmer for 15-20 minutes, or until the rice is tender and the liquid has absorbed.
  3. Remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle the cheese across the top. Place the lid back on and let the cheese melt, then serve.

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