Fajitas were originally made from beef skirt steak but nowadays, chicken, pork, shrimps and beef from other areas of the carcass are also used extensively for fajita recipe.


You can make the fajita heavy or light, as well as healthy and nutritious. It is your creativity that will make the fajita nutritious.
In order to make a healthy fajita, you need to eliminate the unhealthy ingredients and replace them with healthier alternatives.
To start with, it is not essential to use beef. A healthier option would be to use chicken, especially chicken breast. The other unhealthy ingredients in any recipe are salt and oil and as such it is essential that in your fajita recipe, you leave out the salt because the sodium in the salt is very unhealthy.
Instead, you can use pepper and oregano which will give a good taste, if not better than salt. You should also make sure that the sour cream that you select for your fajita recipe is low fat.

It is well known that too much oil is unhealthy and as such the next step should be to grill the fajita in order to make it healthy.
If you use a stove, you would have to add oil to make the fajita mix, but grilling it would be a better idea. It would give it a better taste and also keep up with the original tradition when fajitas were made to go through a grill. In case you are not able to lay your hands on a grill, you can always use a non-stick pan and use just a drop of olive oil which in any case is good for the heart.

The health benefits of fajitas stem from this flexibility in the fajita recipes as you can use healthy ingredients and still maintain the taste.