I regularly cook with my boys. Not always sweet things, but dinners too and one of our family favorites is this simple recipe for chicken fajita wraps.
This is a brilliant and simple recipe for the boys to cook, which is filled with colour and flavour and both of them love wraps. There is something really social about sitting round a table full of bowl and eating with your hands.
Chicken Fajita Wraps
We have been growing our own peppers in the conservatory this year and this is a great recipe for using them. The boys have had so much fun, growing, cooking and then eating their own peppers.
Ingredients
- Chicken Breasts – one per person
- 3 peppers
- 2 onions
- Fajita seasoning – we use swartz, but you can make your own
- 2 tablespoons of tomato puree
- Wraps
Method
We have two ways of cooking this, one in our crock pot and the other in a large pan, depending on our plans for the day. It is a great slow cooker recipe, but you do have to drain the additional liquid off it before serving.
Cut your chicken breast into bite sized pieces before frying with a tiny bit of oil, until golden brown.
Slice your peppers into colourful strips.
Cut your onions into rings of slices. We always leave the root on when cutting onions as it reduces the release of chemicals that make you cry when cutting them.
Add the peppers and onions to your pan and cook for 10 more minutes before adding fajita seasoning and also 2 tablespoons of tomato puree and cook for a further 5 minutes. We use Swartz seasoning, but Daisies and Pie has a fab recipe including all you need to make your own seasoning.
We warm our tortillas in the microwave for convenience.
We often serve this with lots of different accompaniments including sour cream, guacamole, cheese, salsa and fresh salad.
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Take a look at the other great P is for Pepper posts from the cooking with kids team:
Asian Chicken from Sugar Aunts
Stuffed Peppers from Rainy Day Mum
Stromboli from Slugs, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
Peach salsa from Still playing school
See our other A-Z of cooking with kids series here
This looks super tasty – perfect for warding off this colder nights!!
Looks very tasty 🙂
yum yum! it is good to get children cooking and feeling confident in the kitchen. We haven’t progressed to dinners yet but my boys are good at making pancakes and french toast xx
Fajitas are a firm family favourite in our house. They are a great way to get vegetables into the small people too! Love your recipe! 🙂
We love fajitas too – it’s a great quick and tasty tea x
We regularly make something similar when we have a roast chicken week – it’s a good way of using up the chicken.
Oh yum this sounds so tasty and really easy to cook! x
Chicken fajitas are firm favourites in our house 🙂
My Chicken Fajitas are never that good, I always think there is something missing x
We do fahitajs loads the my kids love being involved too. Mich x
That is a great tip about keeping the root on the onion, I shall try that out. We love fajitas in our house, even better with some of your home grown veggies like your peppers.
This looks very yummy. Do you think that it would work without the chicken?
We love making fajita’s and its a nice easy one for the kids to help with
This looks like the perfect recipe that the kids can help me to make, it’s definitely going to go on my things to cook.
I have good memories of chicken fajita wraps. A uni friend used to always make them and so it takes me back to fun evenings in her shared student house.
I always find the kids eat a lot more when they have helped to create it. Fajitas is a popular dinner at ours too x
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