These are a fresh and delicious twist on traditional Fajitas. These Paleo Fajitas are Whole 30, Ketos, Gluten Free, Low Carb and Paleo! Classic Fajitas were one of my favorite meals and one meal I missed since going Paleo. With some healthy changes and some fun additional, we can have Fajitas and all the fun fixings on top! So good!
These Paleo Fajitas have quickly become a go-to meal. Quick and easy to make and fun to eat. I have even used leftovers Beef Roasts, Chicken, or Pulled Pork as the meat instead of cooking up some ground beef or turkey too.
Paleo Fajitas
What You Need:
- 1 pound of chicken, pork, beef, or ground beef or turkey meat
- 1 large onion, chopped into half moons
- 1 of each red, green and yellow peppers chopped into strips
- 3-4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 5- 6 shitake mushrooms, chopped into strips
- 4 tbsp of salsa
- 1/2 tsp of each- cayenne pepper, cumin, & chili powder
- 1 tbsp of coconut oil
- 1 avocado
- Bunch of cilantro
- Head of Butter Lettuce
How To:
The Meat…
1. In a frying pan, cook ground beef over medium heat.
2. Drain any oil from the ground meat.
3. Turn the heat down to low.
4. Mix the spices in the frying pan, cayenne pepper, cumin, chili powder and salsa.
5. Cover and begin working on the vegetables.
Vegetables…
1. In a frying pan over medium heat add coconut oil
2. Then add in garlic, onion, peppers, shitake mushrooms
3. Saute vegetable until they are soft
The Fajitas Shells…
1. Wash & separate the Butter Lettuce leaves, let dry
The Fixings…
1. Sliced avocado
2. Chop lime into wedges
3. Chop cilantro
4. Slice jalapeño
5. Salsa
6. Hot sauce
Assemble:
1. Put the meat into one bowl and put the veggies into another bowl
2. Have all the fixings ready
3. Make your taco. However, you like!
4. Scoop ground beef onto butter lettuce add favorite toppings
(avocado, salsa, squeeze lime on top)
And enjoy!!!
Serve with whatever kind of Fajita topping you like.
Check Out More of Our Favorite Paleo Recipes:
Remember to sign up for our newsletter, so you never miss one of our many adventures and follow Thank You Honey on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, & Instagram!
These look awesome!
This is how I make fajitas too! It makes it easy to make them gluten free! Oh so delicious!
I love lettuce wraps and these look so good! I don’t know why I didn’t think of making fajitas like this.
That looks delicious, makes me hungry already. MY husband love fajitas so I might try your recipe someday.
I love Fajitas! This is great I’ve been wanting to do something like this! I pinned this and can’t wait to make!
Okay my mouth is watering! The cool part is that I could easily make this vegan friendly. Thanks for the tasty option.
Paleo and keto diets are trending now for weight watchers. The fajitas looks tasty.
I have been looking for some Paleo recipes to try. This looks so delicious and easy to make. I will have to get the ingredients I need to make some this weekend.
I have been meaning to make some paleo fajitas. Ive been experimenting with eliminating a lot of different things from my diet. These look so delicious!!
I would love these! I have made a few version similar to this recipe, but not with raw veggies – I may try this out next week
My oldest enjoys traditional fajitas and many other similar foods. That’s a really neat idea to replace the shell with lettuce.
My hubby and I would love these! I love that they are good for you and SOOOO tasty! Sometimes that doesn’t always happen. I can’t wait to try this!
I’ve had lettuce wraps before but never thought of fajita style lettuce wraps. Love this idea! My family loves fajitas and this would be a welcome change from tortillas.
Oh, it’s like lettuce wrap fajitas. What a great idea for those favorite dishes.
I love using lettuce as wraps. I feel like you taste the contents so much more!
I’ve always been a fan of fajitas! These look tasty. I’m not paleo, but I’ll try everything once. Plus I just love veggies and spicy salsa.
My daughter does Whole 30 so I’ll have to share this with her. This is a great alternative to regular fajitas and would be a perfect weeknight meal.
I do this for lunches all the time. Really quick and easy to throw it all together and put the leaves in a separate container. Just fill and wrap. The kids really like them as well.
Those fajitas sound really good! While I don’t follow specific diets, I do try to eat healthy, so I am excited to make these.
I’m paleo too and never thought to use lettuce as wraps! Thanks for the idea!
You must try! I love to wrap everything in lettuce. Thanks for stopping by!
I keep hearing about “paleo” food . . . this makes me want to eat it 🙂
Try it! Thanks for stopping by!
Pinning this to my Whole30 board! Looks delish!
Thank you!
I don’t know if I could get behind paleo for the simple reason of my love of bread/tortillas. But you tell me there is guac involved and I’m intrigued! Stopping by from the Merry Monday linky party! Thanks for sharing! -Treana @ houseofbennetts.com
They are just healthy! Give them a try! Thanks for stopping by!
We don’t do the paleo diet but this looks tasty. I would definitely give it a try! Thanks for linking up to Snickerdoodle Sunday.
They are yummy! Enjoy! Thanks for stopping by!
My husband would love these!! I will definitely share this recipe with him. (He can make it! lol)
That’s a great idea! Enjoy them! Have a fabulous week! Thanks for stopping by!
Yummy – I love fajitas, too and just pinned this. We’re going to have this tomorrow night – thanks so much for sharing
Thank you! Hope you enjoy them! I also make Lettuce Wrap tacos too! So yummy and fresh! Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy them!