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Title: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: Smokin Don on March 16, 2016, 11:50:01 AM

Mar 16 2016

For last night’s supper we had chicken fajitas, some lime corn and avocado. For my chicken I spatchcocked and brined overnight. My brine is half gallon of water and ¼ cup kosher salt. I usually always brine chicken; it insures a moist meat. I did it on my Traeger, a half hour on smoke 200 deg. Then went to 280-290 deg. grill level. It took a total of 2 hours and 15 minutes to get to 170 deg. IT. The last 20 minutes I did go to 320 deg. grill level. After cooling I pulled all the meat for the fajitas and saved the skin for a cooks treat.

For the fajitas I used McCormick’s fajita sauce; it’s all natural no preservatives and no MSG. It is fairly new and it’s along with their dry packets. I have also used the sloppy joe sauce. It is about as good as I can make quick and easy. For another time saver I used some Birds Eye sliced peppers and onions. The only disadvantage to using frozen ones is they give off a lot of water so I sauté them until most all the water is gone before adding the chicken and sauce.

I had two avocados; just chopped with some lime juice. My other side was Birds Eye lime corn cooked in the microwave. They also have some BBQ corn, both of these would go with any Tex-Mex or BBQ.

Our son was away on business so the daughter in law and grandson came for supper. As soon as our daughter got home from work after 6:00 I started supper. I had everything ready so didn’t take long. I had to heat up some of the plain chicken for the grandson and I heated a can of baby corn for him too; he loves it.

Everyone thought the fajitas were good and all loved the lime corn. I had shredded cheese, sour cream and some lime wedges for the fajitas. I browned the tortillas on a Lodge round griddle. I had wanted a nice shot of the stove with the last tortilla on the griddle but got caught up and most had made their fajita before I thought of it. The close up of the chicken was to show how moist it was.

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Smokin Don

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: HighOnSmoke on March 16, 2016, 12:03:21 PM

Delicious looking plate of goodness Don!

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: smokeasaurus on March 16, 2016, 02:34:22 PM

That is about as purdy of a chicken as you are gonna see..........bet those fajitas were tasty.

I am starting to get into McCormick seasonings as well......they have some good crockpot flavors.....

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: tomcrete1 on March 16, 2016, 03:13:11 PM

Nice lookin Chicken!  :)

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: Savannahsmoker on March 16, 2016, 03:52:47 PM

Sweet.

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: hikerman on March 16, 2016, 04:31:19 PM

That's a very nice looking meal Don!

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: TMB on March 16, 2016, 05:04:11 PM

Ill take two fajitas and corn!   I'm not one to eat the GREEN stuff  :-X :-X :-X

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: Hub on March 16, 2016, 05:14:42 PM

Don, you never cook anything that doesn't make me hungry just to look at.  I'd love to be your neighbor  ;D.

I use a lot of McCormick's spices and package blends, too.  They are always good quality and fresh.  I sometimes pay up for a few specialty items from Penzey's but not all that often.  There's a Florida company, Badia, that makes a low-priced line of basic spices some of which are good and some of which are really bland (you have to try them and see) but when they are good they are a great bargain.

Hub

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: muralboy on March 16, 2016, 08:04:33 PM

Don that's a nice looking meal - one of these days i am showing up on your door step  8)

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: muebe on March 16, 2016, 11:41:58 PM

Looks outstanding Don!

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: drholly on March 17, 2016, 01:35:08 AM

Dang! That is stupendous!

Title: Re: Smoked Chicked Fajitas and Lime Corn
Post by: akruckus on March 17, 2016, 02:48:30 AM

I with Hub, I want to be your neighbor with you always having a good looking dinner!