Fajita Vegetable Packets: A Great Way To Use Up The Garden Bounty!
Looking for a way to use up the summer produce from the garden? Scored a good deal on onions and peppers at the farmers market? Let me introduce you to one of my favorite ways to use onions and bell peppers!
Fajita vegetable packets!
I love fajitas. Love isn’t a strong enough word. Fajitas would be my last meal in prison. Yum!
However, I don’t always dig the price of bell peppers in the winter. Talk about sticker shock! One summer I had a abundance of both bell peppers and onions and decided to make some of these up!
I also love having ingredients ready to use in the freezer. Who wouldn’t?
First, slice your bell peppers in to strips.
I did red bells and green bells. You can use whatever colors suit you.
Put the bell peppers into quart size bags or whatever containers you have on hand.
Slice up onions and add them to the bags too.
If you want to add other vegetables or peppers, feel free. This is what I use in my fajitas. Seal and label the bags and freeze.
This is how I use them: I cook up the meat (usually chicken), season everything if I didn’t do so before, add the frozen vegetables, and let them cook. You might not have the crisp vegetables that some like in their fajitas. I am okay with that. I usually turn the heat up to medium high – high heat to cook off the liquid that comes out from freezing. This works great in my cast iron skillet!
If you really want to, you can freeze the meat with the vegetables. You can even season it all, add a tablespoon of olive oil, two tablespoons of lime juice, and freeze it altogether in a gallon size freezer bag for a complete dump and pour meal.
Thanks for reading,
Erica