Description
Easy, quick, and delicious recipe for homemade shrimp fajitas using shrimp, green pepper, onions, lime and just a few spices!
Ingredients
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ cup chopped fresh cilantro, divided
- 3 tablespoons chili powder
- 4 large cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 pound frozen shrimp – thawed, peeled, deveined, and cleaned
- cooking spray
- 1 onion, sliced into rings and rings separated
- 1 large green bell pepper, sliced into strips
- 1 serrano chile pepper, sliced, or more to taste
- 4 (8 inch) flour tortillas
- 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese, or to taste
- ½ cup shredded lettuce, or to taste
- ¼ cup sour cream, or to taste
- ¼ cup chopped tomatoes, or to taste
Instructions
- Whisk olive oil
- 1/4 cup cilantro
- chili powder
- garlic
- lime juice
- and salt together in a bowl; add shrimp
- toss to coat
- and marinate in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat; spray with cooking spray. Add onion
- green bell pepper
- and serrano chile pepper; saute until tender
- 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer vegetables to a bowl and cover with aluminum foil to keep warm.
- Pour shrimp and marinade into the same skillet over medium-high heat; cook until shrimp are pink and opaque
- about 2 minutes per side. Stir vegetables into shrimp mixture; cook and stir until heated through
- 2 to 3 minutes.
- Spoon shrimp-vegetable mixture onto tortillas and top each with Cheddar cheese
- lettuce
- sour cream
- tomatoes
- and remaining 1/4 cup cilantro.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 16 mins
Total Time: 56 mins
Servings: 4