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.
Chicken after brine and air dry
Chicken about done
Resting
The moist chicken
All pulled
For the fajitas
Serving
My fajita
My supper
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