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Laura@LauraForteFitness.comHappy Friday! How often do you have a few hours until dinner and you are brainstorming some ideas to make a healthy, delicious dinner? Hopefully you’ve tried a few of the recipes from my ’33 Favorite Recipes’ cookbook, but here’s another awesome recipe to add to your repertoire.
Before I give you the recipe for these chicken fajitas, let’s review what living a ‘Paleo’ lifestyle is. Paleo is the Paleolithic diet – living how our ancestors used to eat. Today’s average diet consists of processed foods, wheat based, sugary products, and concentrated high calorie foods with incredibly high sodium levels.
Paleo is quite the opposite – it consists of eating ‘whole’ foods – no calorie counting – and your body will thank you hundreds of times over.
Paleo diets consist of lots of meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, and fruit. Avoided foods are dairy products, sugar, and wheat products.
Why make the change to Paleo?
- Lose weight: You will see your body shed pounds as it takes in more nutrients and loses the excess weight you had from eating processed foods.
- Feel better: You will feel more active, healthier, and have much more energy after limiting the dairy, wheat, and processed foods in your diet.
- Improved skin: Eliminate acne, skin bumps, and dry skin by eating Paleo! I used to have these weird bumps on the back of my arms, and when I switched to eating more Paleo (I’m not a die hard so I’m not completely Paleo) – the bumps went away!
- Reduce or eliminate your risk of diseases: this includes cancer, heart disease, diabetes, any many others – your body will appreciate you putting in foods that it can digest and put to good use in your body.
Without further ado, here is a great Paleo chicken fajita recipe. Serves 2.
1 lb chicken breasts (sliced into strips)
½ medium onion, sliced
1 red bell pepper (sliced)
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon coriander
1 teaspoon chili powder
3 garlic cloves, chopped
Juice of 1 lemon and 1 lime
1 head hydroponic butter lettuce, root removed, washed and dried
In a bowl, combine all ingredients. If you have time, let marinate in fridge for up to 4 hours. Heat a pan with 1 tablespoon coconut or olive oil and sauté until the chicken is cooked through and the onions and peppers have softened. Pile on a lettuce leaf and top with guacamole. (see recipe below)
Guacamole
2 Hass avocados
1 tablespoon hot sauce (optional)
Juice of 1 lemon and 1 lime
Cilantro (chopped fine – use fresh)
Mash all ingredients in a bowl with a fork. Serve over fajitas. Enjoy!
Let me know if you try out the recipe and what you think! I’ll be making this for dinner next week and I’ll post some pictures. If you haven’t yet signed up for our recipe book, enter in your name and email over to the right to get more great recipes like this one!
