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Best Fajita Toppings

BY: Michele
PUBLISHED: Sep 4, 2022
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4-photo collage for Fajita Toppings. Top left photo shows watermelon salsa, top right photo shows sliced onions, red, green, and yellow bell peppers, bottom left photo is salsa verde, and bottom right photo shows Fajita stuffed avocados.

Fajitas – What’s not to love? Tender beef (or chicken or shrimp) served sizzling hot with sautéed onions, peppers, and lime juice, all tucked in nicely in soft, fluffy, warm tortillas!

Are you a fajita lover like we are? How can anyone not love them? They are quick and easy to cook, super flavorful, wholesome, and cover all the food groups when you add the vegetables and fajita toppings

Of course, the best thing about fajitas is the taste! They are savory, succulent, smoky, and delicious, especially if you marinate and season the meat fajita seasoning prior to cooking.

Table of Contents
  • Fajita Seasoning
  • Fajita Fillings
  • Beef
  • Chicken
  • Shrimp
  • Fajita Stuffed Avocados
  • Steak Fajita Roll-Ups
  • Fajita Toppings
  • Onions
  • Peppers
  • Cheese or Queso
  • Sour Cream
  • Pico De Gallo
  • Guacamole
  • Salsa Verde
  • Mango Habanero Salsa
  • Cilantro
  • Jalapeños
  • Peach Salsa
  • Watermelon Salsa
  • Tortillas for Fajitas
  • Reviews

Fajita Seasoning

Whether you have beef fajitas or chicken fajitas, you’ll need some fajita seasoning, which is a dry rub.

You’ll need a fajita seasoning blend that has some chili powder, cayenne pepper, and more like my favorite Fajita Seasoning recipe.

Fajita Fillings

First, you have to decide which type of fajita you want to make, beef, chicken, shrimp, or vegetarian with just vegetables. Each of these can serve as a topping or filling for the fajita.

You can easily create a fajita bar to let people select their own toppings so they can pick and choose their favorite fajita toppings.

Beef

Growing up, beef fajitas, with succulent marinated beef or top sirloin steak, or even top round steak fajitas, seared to perfection for that delicious, smoky flavor were a staple, especially in the summer.

Now we eat fajitas all year round, I’m sharing below our favorite Marinated Beef Fajitas recipe, that I hope you’ll love as much as we do.

Tex-Mex Beef Fajitas
This Tex-Mex Beef Fajitas recipe, made with skirt steak or flank steak, and served with sauteed onions, red and green peppers, makes an easy, delicious, smoky, spicy and flavorful dinner.
Check out this recipe

Chicken

There’s nothing like it when you go to a Mexican restaurant and they bring hot that sizzling platter of chicken onions and peppers!

You’ll love this easy yet fabulous chicken fajita recipe below as it is cooked in a sizzling hot cast iron skillet either on the grill or on the stovetop for stovetop chicken fajitas.

Skillet Chicken Fajitas
Skillet Chicken Fajitas served in a hot skillet or a sizzling hot platter with sautéed onions, peppers, mushrooms, avocado or Guacamole, and served with Pico De Gallo,  and flour tortillas on the side!
Check out this recipe
Overhead view of sliced skillet chicken fajitas in a cast iron skillet with sliced bell peppers, avocados, limes, and onions.

Shrimp

Tasty, seasoned shrimp, sizzling hot on a cast iron skillet or griddle.

Shrimp Fajitas Recipe
Tender marinated shrimp with sautéed peppers and onions is nothing short of mouth-watering! When wrapped in a fresh tortilla with your favorite toppings, you have a delicious dinner!
Check out this recipe
Overhead view of left half of a cast iron skillet with shrimp fajitas inside with red green and yellow bell peppers, surrounded by chopped cilantro and corn tortillas in the bottom left corner.

Fajita Stuffed Avocados

For a lower-carb option, you can switch things around and have the protein be the topping in the fajita.

In this recipe, there are no tortillas, half of an avocado serves as the base and the chicken, beef, or shrimp are the toppings.

Fajita Stuffed Avocados Recipe
Fresh, ripe avocados are stuffed with zesty chicken or beef fajitas as well as fajita onions, and red and green bell peppers, for a low-carb Tex-Mex dinner. Perfect for Cinco De Mayo or any time you feel like a fiesta!
Check out this recipe

Steak Fajita Roll-Ups

No tortillas are needed for this fajita recipe.

Steak Fajita Roll-Ups are made with marinated flank steak fajita beef wrapped around fajita seasoned onions and peppers for low carb or Keto fajitas.

Low Carb Steak Fajita Roll Ups Recipe
Steak Fajita Roll Ups make a healthy yet flavorful low carb or Keto dinner. Perfectly grilled marinated steak fajitas wrapped around sautéed fajita seasoned onions and peppers.
Check out this recipe
Close up of Steak Roll Fajitas stuffed with strips of red onion, and green and red pepper on top of green lettuce.

Fajita Toppings

Onions

In my opinion, onions are a required Fajita topping. However, many people may not be able to eat onions, so it is always good to have them as an option on a fajita bar.

You can use white, yellow, or red onions, cut them into strips and then put them in a skillet or griddle and sauté them until they are tender and delicious.

Peppers

There’s nothing like sautéed red, green, and yellow bell peppers to go with those sautéed onions and savory fajita fillings. Use only one color or all three colors of peppers, either way, people will love these toppings.

Cheese or Queso

Often I just use shredded cheddar, pepper jack, or Mexican blend shredded cheese.

However, you could also use your favorite queso recipe as well. Here is my favorite queso recipe.

Velveeta Skillet Queso Recipe
This is the Best Velveeta Skillet Queso ever! It has sausage, jalapeño, 3 cheeses, Rotel, and beer to give it an amazing flavor and smoothness.  Eat it with your favorite dip chip for a nice appetizer or game day snack.
Check out this recipe
Skillet of loaded queso topped with sliced avocados,, jalapenos, and chopped cilantros, with a tortilla chip held over the skillet of queso with queso dripping off the chip into the skillet.

Sour Cream

Cool, creamy sour cream, or Mexican Crema, provide a nice cool, smooth contrast to the spicy heat of the fajitas.

You can also add sour cream to salsas to make a creamy salsa as well.

Pico De Gallo

My favorite topping to add to fajitas, whether they are steak, chicken, or seafood fajitas, is Pico De Gallo.

Pico De Gallo salsa, a colorful, and vibrant topping made of fresh tomatoes, onions, jalapeños, and more adds a bit of cool freshness to sizzling hot fajitas.

Pico de Gallo Salsa
Pico de Gallo Salsa is a delicious, colorful, spicy, healthy Mexican appetizer dip that is perfect for any party or dinner.
Check out this recipe

Guacamole

Like many, I love creamy Guacamole on top of my fajitas. I usually leave guacamole, especially my Spicy Cilantro Guacamole as an option for a fajita bar so those that want to add it can, and those who don’t, don’t have to.

Spicy Cilantro Game Day Guacamole Recipe
Always popular Game Day Guacamole, made with fresh avocados, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and jalapenos is creamy, spicy, and perfect for a party!
Check out this recipe
orange bowl with guacamole with dark tortilla chips with a black background surrounded by shot glasses, lime slices, chilies and a pink and purple decoration.

Salsa Verde

Top your fajitas with Salsa Verde with tomatillos, serrano peppers, onion, garlic, and more, and no cooking is required for this delicious fresh salsa. It goes perfectly with your favorite fajitas and is a change of pace from salsa roja.

Authentic Salsa Verde Recipe
Authentic Salsa Verde is made with fresh ingredients, including tomatillos, serrano peppers, onion, garlic, cilantro, and requires no cooking.
Check out this recipe
Overhead view of a bowl of salsa verde, green sauce, garnished with avocado slices, chopped onions, serrano peppers, and surrounded by tortilla chips.

Mango Habanero Salsa

For a tropical vibe, you can switch out the regular salsa or Pico De Gallo for Mango Pico De Gallo for a tropical island flavor.

Mango Habanero Salsa Recipe
Mango Habanero Salsa combines sweet mangoes with spicy habanero peppers for a fresh, healthy no-bake, sweet and spicy salsa! 
Check out this recipe

Cilantro

Cilantro – people either love it or hate it. I love it. My sister hates it, but to me it is a staple for fajitas. I expect to see cilantro served with fajitas.

Probably the most controversial of fajita toppings as cilantro garners strong feelings about it from potential diners. I’m including it. You can decide for yourself to choose it or not for your fajita topping.

Jalapeños

If you like a little spice, then add some sliced jalapeños to your fajitas. If you don’t like spicy heat, then feel free to leave them off the fajitas.

The wonderful thing about fajitas is that you get to choose! There are so many options that you can customize fajitas to your taste!

Peach Salsa

Salsas and fajitas go hand in hand perfectly. Fruit salsas, like this fresh peach salsa, go especially well with chicken fajitas as well as shrimp fajitas.

Peach salsa adds a fresh, seasonal twist to fajitas in the summer. They also provide a nice contrast the heat of the fajita with the cold fresh fruit.

Fresh Peach Salsa Recipe
Fresh Peach Salsa is a refreshing summer salsa, with fresh peaches, tomatoes and jalapeños, that is used as a dip or topping for grilled chicken or pork.
Check out this recipe
bowl of fresh peach salsa on white pedestal with blue napkin with peach below.

Watermelon Salsa

Summer fresh watermelon salsa, there’s nothing like it. The sweet heat the watermelon salsa provides tastes lovely on shrimp, fish, or chicken fajitas.

Cool and refreshing Watermelon Salsa is both sweet and spicy. If you want to reduce the spicy heat, either reduce the number of jalapeños or omit them completely.

Watermelon Salsa Recipe
Light and refreshing Watermelon Salsa, with watermelon, strawberries, herbs, honey, and jalapeño, offers a sweet and spicy summer appetizer for Cinco De Mayo, or a picnic, party, or potluck!
Check out this recipe
Overhead view of bowl with watermelon salsa surrounded by tortilla chips and slices of watermelon, whole jalapeños, strawberries, and a green napkin in the top right.

Tortillas for Fajitas

You can use either flour tortillas or corn tortillas to make fajitas. Flour tortillas are the type of tortillas most commonly used to make fajitas.

If you can, I highly recommend using homemade flour tortillas for all your fajita recipes because they are softer and more fluffy than store-bought tortillas. Below is one of my favorite flour tortilla recipes.

Easy Homemade Tortillas Recipe
An easy tortilla recipe for homemade flour tortillas made with just 3 ingredients perfect for making your favorite mexican recipes at home.
Check out this recipe

There you have my favorite toppings to go on fajitas, as well as an easy flour tortilla recipe.

To round out your Tex-Mex Fajita dinner, you’ll need a side dish. Serve the fajitas with Mexican Rice and Refried Beans. For a low-carb option, serve with Mexican Cauliflower Rice.

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