Keto chicken fajita bowl
Have it both ways. A warm and satisfying meal, and a fresh salad, rolled into one. Plus, it's keto AND amazingly delicious! Feast or fiesta? You decide.
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servingservings
Ingredients
- 10 oz. 275 g Romaine lettuce
- 5 oz. 150 g cherry tomatoes
- 2 2 avocadoavocados
- 4 tbsp 4 tbsp fresh cilantro
- 3 oz. 75 g butter
- 1½ lbs 650 g boneless chicken thighs
- salt and pepper
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp Tex-Mex seasoning
- 1 1 yellow onionyellow onions
- 1 1 green bell peppergreen bell peppers
- 5 oz. 150 g Mexican cheese
- 1 cup 225 ml sour cream (optional)
Instructions
- Prepare the toppings: Tear the lettuce, chop tomatoes, dice avocados, and clean and chop the cilantro. Grate the cheese if not pre-shredded. Set aside.
- Slice onion and pepper fairly thin.
- On a separate cutting board, cut the chicken into thin strips.
- Fry the chicken in butter in a large skillet over medium high heat. Salt and pepper to taste. When the chicken is almost cooked through, add onion, pepper and Tex-Mex seasoning.
- Lower the heat and continue to fry while stirring for a couple of minutes until the chicken is thoroughly cooked and the vegetables have softened just a bit.
- Place lettuce in a bowl and add the chicken mixture. Add shredded cheese, diced avocado, chopped tomatoes, fresh cilantro and perhaps a dollop of sour cream.
Tip!
A spoonful of your favorite salsa can be a nice addition. Also, feel free to substitute guacamole for the avocado in this fajita bowl.
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I too have asked this question about calories, carbs, fiber, fat and protein for all of these recipes. I never get a response. Please share if you hear anything! Good luck.
We don't want to promote to much "counting" that's why we only have the carbs in gram (fat and protein in %).
But we know about this demand for additional nutritional info and I think we will provide more info soon.
We count net carbs (Total Carbs - Fiber)
We count net carbs (Total Carbs - Fiber) and E% .
TIA
I really dislike any meat on the bone and would therefore like to substitute in chicken breast. How many grams of chicken breast can I add per serving?
Thanks!
Nicola
But as a British person, I need to know how much a half a cup of something is as we don't cook in cups. We rarely drink out of them these days but prefer mugs. If I have to buy a cup, then I need to know the size you mean.
On another note, you are quoting tablespoons of things in recipes. I worked out this morning, thanks to the recipe saying a tablespoon (8g) of coconut flour is not a tablespoon in Britain but a dessertspoon. You need to be a bit careful with giving out measurements in the recipes when you are aiming at an international rather than just an American audience. We also measure solids in grammes and liquids in millilitres, or some of us older ones in ounces and pints. Hard to work out when you quote millilitres for some solids on here. Just don't to end up putting food in the bin over measurements being misinterpreted inadvertently.
Thanks for all you're doing. A bit more communications with yourselves behind the scenes would also help, but otherwise it is a great site and I've learnt a lot in a week already! And for me it is an enormous leap of faith.
See my previous note to Peter. I have also found in a week that I am actually skipping the odd meal, not through laziness or lack of time, but simply I can't eat the food when I'm not hungry!! Tonight I am going to cook the two portions of the chicken as prescribed for Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch. But I doubt if I'll eat much tomorrow if I eat the second portion at lunchtime. Only so much food I can eat in a day and to date prefer to have breakfast at the moment than lunch as it's usually 10am. I had the keto coconut 'porridge' kind of breakfast this morning with fresh raspberries on top. My word it was great, and I'll be having that for a few days and get away from scrambled eggs or fry-ups when I'm only out of bed. I was eating porridge until then for the last forty years so a big change. I don't know yet if I've lost any weight yet - I don't have much to lose but I want to lose some fat, which is not the same thing. I will find out on Monday when I weigh myself. I only weigh myself once a week, no more, on the same scales at exactly the same time each Monday - immediately as I get up and at my lowest weight - in the same place, and no clothes. Then there are no outside factors to mess it up. Hope it all changes for you and good luck.
It is cajoun powder in England! And calindra is apparently coriander in every English speaking country except America! Ha, ha! Even my Bengali neighbours didn't know what calindra was, and they live on coriander!!!
Thanks Tamara for the tip-off! I've got some sour cream as it was the weekly shopping list they gave us, so lucky I bought exactly what they said for one!!
Normally and in this case, yes.
There is a Tex-Mex seasoning recipe on the diet doctor website though! It’s decent!