These Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas (Fajitas de Pollo) from the cookbook, Amazing Mexican Favorites with Your Instant Pot, are tender, flavorful, and taste better than restaurant fajitas. They are also easy to make, and paleo and Whole30-friendly!
If you are a Mexican food lover like me (who isn’t???), you are going to love this recipe and blog post! My blogger friend, Emily of Recipes to Nourish, just wrote a fantastic cookbook with her chef husband, Rudy, called Amazing Mexican Favorites with Your Instant Pot, and I couldn’t be more excited!
Not only am I a huge fan of Mexican food, you already know that the Instant Pot is one of my favorite kitchen gadgets that cuts down on cooking time and makes my life so easy. So with the combination of these two things in one cookbook, it’s like the book was written for me!
Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas
One of the recipes I decided to share from the cookbook is the Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas or Fajitas de Pollo. A major reason I picked the fajitas is because it’s probably what I order at a restaurant 90% of the time because I love it so much and it’s usually paleo-friendly.
Chicken, bell peppers, and onions are simmered together in delicious Mexican spices, and the flavor combo is just out-of-this world delicious! Also, I usually don’t love to cook with chicken breasts because they tend to be on the drier side than thighs, but cooked in the Instant Pot, the meat turned out so dang tender. My husband and I couldn’t stop talking about how good this was!
Amazing Mexican Favorites with Your Instant Pot Cookbook
The Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas turned out so incredibly flavorful that I’m thrilled to try out more recipes in Emily’s newest cookbook. Her husband, who co-authored the book, is from a Mexican heritage so all the dishes are authentic while being easy and practical.
Most importantly, all the 80 recipes in the cookbook are gluten free and soy free, made with real food without any processed ingredients! Most recipes can be made grain-free and many can be made Paleo-friendly. Specifically, there are over 30 recipes that are strictly Paleo and over 50 recipes are strictly dairy-free.
Some of dishes that I can’t WAIT to try…
- Pork Tamales
- Fish Tacos
- Meatball Soup
- Mexican Hot Chocolate
- Chile Dip
- Churros Cake
- Spanish Frittata
- Coconut Bread Pudding
- Traditional Tortilla Soup
…and so much more!
Go Grab a Copy!
Amazing Mexican Favorites with Your Instant Pot came out on January 15, 2019, which means you can go grab a copy today! I highly recommend it for those of you who want to create delicious and authentic Mexican dishes at home easily using your Instant Pot.
If you are new to the Instant Pot, this cookbook is a great place to start because the directions are easy to follow and you’ll be able to learn how to create a variety of dishes with this one book.
Hope you enjoy these Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas and make sure to order a copy of the cookbook!
Check out Amazing Mexican Favorites with Your Instant Pot!
Reprinted with permission from Amazing Mexican Favorites with Your Instant Pot by Emily Sunwell-Vidaurri and Rudy Vidaurri, Page Street Publishing Co. 2019. Photo credit: Emily Sunwell-Vidaurri.
Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas (Paleo, Whole30)
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp ghee or ghee or avocado oil
- 1½ lb chicken breast thinly sliced
- ½ cup chicken broth
- ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 red onion peeled and sliced
- 5 fresh garlic cloves minced
- 1 small red bell pepper stemmed, seeded and sliced
- 1 small green or yellow bell pepper stemmed, seeded and sliced
- 2 jalapeño peppers stemmed, seeded and sliced
- 1 russet potato peeled and cut into wedges
- 1 small tomato seeded and diced
- 1½ tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp chili powder
- ½ tsp dried oregano
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
- ¼ cup fresh lime juice
Optional Toppings and Fixings
- Grated cheese Omit for Paleo or Whole30
- Guacamole
- Sour cream Omit for Paleo or Whole30
- Salsa or hot sauce
- Lemon or lime juice
- Freshly chopped cilantro
- Warmed tortillas gluten-free corn, grain-free, etc. (Omit for Whole30)
Instructions
- Add the healthy fat of your choice to the Instant Pot and press “Sauté.” When the fat has melted, add the chicken and brown for 3 minutes on each side. Remove the browned chicken to a plate and set aside. Add the broth to deglaze the Instant Pot.
- Press the “Keep Warm/Cancel” button. Add the cilantro, onion, garlic, bell peppers, jalapeños, potato, tomato, salt, cumin, chili powder, oregano, black pepper, lime juice and chicken, then stir to coat the chicken.
- Place the lid on the Instant Pot, making sure the steam-release valve is sealed. Press the “Manual” button and set for 5 minutes.
- When the Instant Pot is done and beeps, press “Keep Warm/Cancel.” Allow the Instant Pot to release pressure naturally for 10 minutes. Using an oven mitt, open the steam valve. If there is any steam left over, allow it to release until the silver dial drops, then carefully open the lid.
- Serve immediately with your favorite fajita toppings and fixings.
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I love fajitas, too! This recipe and the book look fantastic!
That looks so delicious! I love Emily’s cookbook very much, too!
Yum! Chicken fajitas are such a classic
Awesome flavors, and so perfect that I got to use my IP too!! Easy!
Cannot wait to try this recipe.
Excited also, to dive into this fabulous new book!!
Thanks for sharing!
I’m so excited about everything in this cookbook! The fajitas are soooo good, too!
Wow, this cookbook was practically made for me! I can’t wait to get my hands on it, and this recipe just proves it’s going to be in heavy rotation. So delicious.
This cookbook looks amazing and I can’t wait to try out this recipe! Love fajitas!
I love that Mexican food is so Paleo friendly too. We rarely have fajitas, but I’m excited to try this recipe.
Everything about this book sounds amazing, including these fajitas, and that churro cake sounds deadly!
Oh wow, these just look so bright and flavorful! I can’t wait to try them!
I love fajitas, and this is another fantastic win for the Instant Pot! SO good!
I was specifically looking for paleo, but this calls for both potato and tomato… anyone omitted them with success? We have changed to primarily eating paleo due to allergies (like wheat, corn, potato, and tomato), so I was surprised to see both potato and tomato in a paleo recipe. 🤷🏻♀️
Tomatoes are 100% paleo and potatoes are in the gray area but many not consider it paleo at this point. Are you talking about the autoimmune protocol (AIP)? This recipe is not AIP.
My husband and I both loves this recipe! So easy and full of flavor. My mom doesn’t have an instant pot. Do you think they would work in a crockpot?
Yes! Just brown the meat in a pan first and cook on HIGH for about 3 hours or low for 4-6 hours.