These sheet pan shrimp fajitas make for an easy weeknight meal with Mexican flavor. Simply bake your shrimp, peppers and onions together on one sheet, load up your tortillas and enjoy!
I’m seriously in denial that it’s almost May, but I’m also excited for all the spring/summer festivities coming up! Especially Cinco de Mayo. I mean, who doesn’t love holidays that involve tacos and palomas?
SEE HOW QUICK AND EASY THESE SHRIMP FAJITAS ARE TO MAKE:
That said, I’m really pumped for today’s post because I’ve teamed up with some of my friends to bring you six Mexican recipes that are easy AND healthy. They’re perfect for celebrating on May 5th, but honestly you can add these to your recipe collection and use them whenever a craving for Mexican hits.
When we go out to a Mexican restaurant I always order one of two things — a salad (our favorite local spot has the best shrimp and avocado salad) OR fajitas. Fajitas are the best for two reasons 1. They come to the table sizzliiiinnnggg and 2. Loading up the tortillas with all the toppings is super fun.
I love playing with my food so anytime I can order a build your own meal like fajitas or make-your-own-spring-rolls, I’m in!
This recipe let’s you recreate the fajita experience at home, but without dirtying up a bunch of dishes. You cook your shrimp and veggies in the oven on a single sheet pan while prepping your toppings. It’s easy peasy and takes less than 30 minutes!
When it comes to the tortillas, I get asked often what brand I recommend. Usually I look for whole-grain corn tortillas with minimal ingredients, but these are usually small and not great for wrapping fajitas. For fajitas I like the Food for Life sprouted-grain tortillas or La Tortilla Factory’s organic tortillas. I’ve been dying to try the grain-free tortillas from Siete Foods, but haven’t had a chance yet.
That said, tortillas certainly aren’t the star of this recipe. You can load the shrimp and veggies on a big bed of greens and make yourself a fajita salad and it will be absolutely delicious. I know this for sure because that’s what I did with the leftovers!!
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These sheet pan shrimp fajitas make for an easy weeknight meal with Mexican flavor. Simply bake your shrimp, peppers and onions together on one sheet, load up your tortillas and enjoy!
Ingredients
- 3 bell peppers, seeded and sliced
- 1 yellow onion, sliced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 lb. fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1/2 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 5-6 tortillas
- salsa, avocado and cilantro, for serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°. Toss bell peppers and onion with garlic, salt, pepper and olive oil. Add to sheet pan and cook for 10-12 minutes.
- While onions and peppers are cooking, toss shrimp with olive oil, chili powder, cumin, onion powder and salt.
- Remove onions and peppers from oven, toss and push to one side of the baking sheet. Add shrimp to the other side of the sheet and return to the oven. Cook for another 10 minutes or until shrimp are no longer translucent and cooked through.
- Serve shrimp and veggies in warm tortillas with salsa, avocado and cilantro on top.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/4 of recipe
- Calories: 397
- Sugar: 9g
- Fat: 17g
- Carbohydrates: 42g
- Fiber: 7g
- Protein: 36g
Keywords: sheet pan, fajitas, shrimp fajitas, one pan meal
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Anything I can make it one pan is a wi! These look delicious, and you can do so much with the toppings! I’m thinking I’d add some mango and greek yogurt for sour cream. Yum!
All of those additional toppings (especially the mango) sound amazing. You’ll have to let me know how they turn out!
Sheet pan meals are the BEST! I’ve never thought of doing fajitas though – need to try!
I hadn’t either until coming up with this recipe. It was so easy I can’t wait to try it with other protein options!
I love sheet pan meals, and shrimp fajitas with all the salsa and guacamole. Thanks for sharing!
I’m so trying your sheet pan shrimp! The best of both worlds. EASY and delish. YEA girl!
Hi, thanks for the great ideas, but could you please include sodium in the nutritional facts. I need to know for health reasons. I’d like to try this and some of your other recipes which I’ve saved.
We just made these tonight and they were delicious! Thank you so much for this recipe:)!
Yay!!! So glad that you liked them, Tara. 🙂
Literally can’t have enough sheet pan dinner ideas. Love this one, it’s so quick and easy but still flavor packed!
oooo i’m loving this post! actually – i love all mexi inspired recipes. i never thought to bake peppers OR shrimp, but that sounds soo much easier than constantly flipping and sauteing them. pinning! xx
This looks delicious. I love a sheet pan dinner. They’re usually a favorite with the kids and definitely a favorite with me because there aren’t a whole lot of pots to wash. The flavors look yum.
Made this recently and it came in the nick of time to save Taco Tuesday which was getting quite boring. It was easy and delicious! Definitely did not come out as pretty as yours (lol) however it did the trick to stir up Taco Tuesday. Definitely will make this again. Thank you for the inspiration.
This recipe is fantastic! We used a red onion instead of white, and 1/2 T chili powder in stead of 1 tablespoon, but otherwise everything was the same. We also sprinkled a little freshly squeezed lime juice on the fajitas (we have a tree!) which added a nice zing. So delicious that the two of us ate the entire recipe. 🙂 Thanks, Brittany!
★★★★★
My husband and I both loved these shrimp fajitas. Clever idea and so very easy to make in a sheet pan. I wanted a little extra seasoning on the shrimp after cooking so added more salt and a Mexican blend called Tajin. Cooked the peppers and onions a little longer than suggested, after shrimp was cooked and removed. Served with salsa, and wishing we had avocado. The wild caught Argentinian shrimp from Trader Joe’s were perfect.
★★★★★
I have a couple of questions about this recipe. I can’t wait to try it, but…
The recipe says “Yields 4”. Is that 4 servings? But the recipe calls for 5-6 tortillas. So is it 4, 5, or 6 Servings?
I really can’t wait to try this recipe, just a little confused on the servings.