Homemade Fajita Marinade

Homemade Fajita Marinade is so much tastier than shop-bought fajita spice mix – and it only takes 5 minutes to make! It’s perfect for chicken fajitas, salmon fajitas, turkey fajitas, vegetable fajitas, steak fajitas… or any time you want some Mexican flavour in your life!

Course Marinade

Cuisine Mexican, Tex-Mex

Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Servings people

Calories 80kcal

Author Eb Gargano

Ingredients

2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon dried chilli flakes (See Note 1)
3 teaspoons smoked paprika
2 teaspoons dried oregano
Juice of 1 lime
2 cloves garlic grated or crushed
2 tablespoons olive oil
½ teaspoon salt (or to taste)
¼ teaspoon black pepper (or to taste)

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Place all the marinade ingredients in a large bowl and mix together thoroughly.
Add your choice of protein (e.g. chicken, turkey, steak, salmon, prawns) and turn to coat.
Ideally leave to marinate for 1-2 hours in the fridge (but you can skip this step if you don’t have the time!)
Continue on with your fajita recipe!

Notes

1 teaspoon of chilli flakes will make this mild to medium. Use ½ teaspoon if you prefer things mild or 2 teaspoons if you prefer medium hot. Obviously if you like things really hot you can add more!
Not suitable for freezing.
Nutrition information is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

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