Chicken Fajita Tacos with Cotija Cheese

February 23, 2015 by Kristi 43 Comments

These Chicken Fajita Tacos with Cotija Cheese are light, refreshing and healthy! You will love the bright, crisp flavor with just a touch of lime zest! Amazingly good and low fat too.

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Ok, enough about business, let’s get to today’s recipe. But 1st, you will love the story with this one!

The Story

Remember The Husband? Well, he does a lot of the grocery shopping for IK, so that I can stay home and prep ingredients. By the way this idea came to me after a friend of mind told me about her enjoy of precooked sliced fajita chicken breast which she enjoyed in the end, and I was looking for inspire, so here we are.

Well, I sent him to the store with a big list as I started chopping, dicing, and prepping all the behind the scenes stuff (picking props, setting up the studio, staging the scene, etc.). When he came home, we unpacked groceries and I had two HUGE containers of cottage cheese.

????? Whaaaaat ?????

Mmmmm, k. No.

When I asked him about it, he was like “Yeah! Cottage cheese.” as he proudly pointed to the list.

Me screaming… “Nnnnnnnoooooooo! We’re having TACOS!….. what the heck am I going to do with cottage cheese???” I’m not sure, but I think I used my outside voice.

So, I grabbed a square piece of note paper, a bright pink, fat Sharpie pen and wrote

C – O – T – I – J – A cheese

on it, and sent him back to the store. Here it is…

Apparently {this is where it gets fuzzy}, he went to the cheese department and was looking pretty lost when Katie (my favorite cheese expert in the whole world), asked him how she could help.

This is how HE tells it…

He sheepishly admits he bought cottage cheese instead of CO-T-JAW cheese. When she heard the pronunciation, of course, she was baffled. Yet, she saw the note in his hand and reached out and said “Let me see…” as she reached for the note paper clutched tightly in his hand.

As the story goes, when she saw the note ( it must’ve been the bright pink letters 🙂 ), she started roaring laughing and said:

“Oh! I know who this is!!!” as she pointed at the bold lettering. “Yes, I know who your wife is.”

Next, she grabbed him by his arm, dragged him over to the cotija cheese and thrust it at him saying “THIS is what she wants.”

~~~ Gulp ~~~.

Apparently, I have a reputation at my favorite store in the world! {{ p.s. thank you Katie! }} 😐

Ok, now on to these tacos!

I looooove yellow corn tortillas for their flavor and durability ~ especially when they’re cooked directly over a gas stove on the grate. It makes them slightly crispy and a bit chewy with toasted edges, that adds such a great texture and toasted flavor to your tacos. The tortillas sort of sink down between the grates in the middle while the edges get toasted and crispy. But that flavor is wow amazing!

What you’ll love about this recipe too is that the chicken is so moist and flavorful, coated with Mexican spiced seasonings that are sssssooooo good!

They’re also healthy, because they’re not cooked in a lot of oil! They’re just finished and packed with flavor with a pleasant spicy salsa paired with a mix of mild cotija cheese.

One other thing before we get to the recipe… Does it drive you crazy when a recipe doesn’t include all the ingredients – even if it is water?

For me, it’s so confusing to read through the entire list of ingredients, look at the instructions and go “Oops! I didn’t prep the water”.

It’s not like it’s hard or anything, but I like everything measured out in prep cups before hand, because I don’t like surprises in the kitchen!

With that said, don’t worry! I’ve included ALL the ingredients… the least of which is NOT water. 🙂

You may think that a bit of water in a recipe doesn’t matter… BUT, as a person who recently remodeled her entire house (including the kitchen and blowing out an external wall), I had ZERO water in my kitchen or on the entire first floor for several months, so water matters!!!

Anyhooooo… enough of the crazy remodel talk.

Enjoy!

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