Applebee’s Fiesta Lime Chicken

Applebee’s Fiesta Lime Chicken is simply a tasty baked chickenhearted crockery that’s large for immoderate time and cleanable for Cinco de Mayo. Serve it with Mexican rice, achromatic beans, and Pico de Gallo for a delicious dinner.

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What Makes Applebees Fiesta Lime Chicken So Good?

Say goodbye to boring chickenhearted dinners, and accidental ‘hola’ to Applebees Fiesta Lime Chicken! Think of this fashionable paper point arsenic a South-of-the-Border mentation of Chicken Parmesan.

You and your household volition emotion the sensation of this look featuring tender baked chickenhearted breasts covered successful a lime ranch dressing and smothered successful mild Colby Jack cheese.

Why You Should Try This Recipe 

This easy-to-make, no-fail oven-baked fiesta lime chickenhearted look volition go your caller go-to repast for those nights erstwhile you privation to service thing peculiar without spending a batch of clip successful the kitchen.

Just marque the sides the time before, and you tin person a homemade, fresh-from-the-oven meal connected your array successful little clip than it takes to get delivery. 

Copycat Fiesta Lime Chicken Ingredients

For the cooking the chicken, you’ll need:

• Chicken breasts
• Lime juice
• Soy sauce
• Honey
• Water
• Cumin
• Garlic powder
• Salt
• Fresh crushed achromatic pepper

For the Fiesta Lime Chicken sauce, you’ll need:

• Ranch dressing
• Salsa
• Sour cream
• Fresh cilantro, chopped
• Lime
• Zest from lime
• Worcestershire sauce

Try to usage caller lime foodstuff present since it makes a tremendous quality successful the taste. However, if you lone person lime foodstuff and nary lime zest, you tin inactive marque the recipe. 

To decorativeness the Fiesta Lime Chicken Applebees style, you’ll need:

• Colby Jack cheese, sliced

Swap Colby Jack for Cheddar food oregon different benignant of food if you prefer. You tin besides usage shredded food alternatively of slices.

How to Make Copycat Fiesta Lime Chicken 

To marque to hole the chicken:

1. In a mean mixing bowl, disturbance unneurotic each the ingredients for the chickenhearted marinade. Place the marinade speech for later. 
2. Split a chickenhearted bosom successful fractional horizontally.
3. Place one-half of the chickenhearted bosom betwixt 2 pieces of integrative wrap. Gently lb the chickenhearted into an adjacent thickness utilizing the level broadside of a nutrient tenderizer.
4. Put the pounded chickenhearted into the vessel with the marinade. 
5. Repeat with the remaining pieces of chicken.
6. Cover the vessel and enactment it successful the fridge. Marinade the chickenhearted for a minimum of 1 hr and nary much than 12 hours.
7. Lightly grease a 9 x 13 baking dish.
8. Dry the chickenhearted pieces with a insubstantial towel and spot them successful a azygous furniture connected the bottommost of the baking dish.

To hole the Fiesta lime ranch sauce:

1. Place each the condiment ingredients successful a tiny bowl.
2. Stir until the Mexi-ranch condiment is good combined.

To cook the chicken:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. 
2. Bake the chickenhearted for 20 minutes. 
3. Remove the baking crockery from the oven. Juices from the chickenhearted volition beryllium successful the bottommost of the dish. Do not determination disconnected the juices.
4. Spoon the Fiesta Lime Chicken condiment connected apical of the chicken.

5. Cover the chickenhearted with a portion of cheese. 
6. Return the baking crockery to the oven until the food bubbles. 
7. Use an instant-read thermometer to double-check that the interior somesthesia of the chickenhearted is astatine slightest 165°F. 
8. Plate the chickenhearted and service it topped with Pico de Gallo oregon chopped tomatoes and with your favourite Mexican sides. 

Recipe Variation

Instead of baked chickenhearted you tin marque grilled chicken.

1. Marinate the chickenhearted per the look instructions.
2. Heat a grill cookware oregon skillet implicit medium-high vigor connected the stove.
3. Add a tablespoonful of cooking lipid to the pan.
4. Cook the chickenhearted until it is done, astir 4 minutes per side, turning halfway done cooking. Chicken is done erstwhile it has an interior temp is 165°F.
5. Place the grilled chickenhearted successful a baking crockery and apical it with the condiment and cheese.
6. Broil it until the food is melted.

What to Serve Applebees Fiesta Lime Chicken

Fiesta Lime Chicken is simply a bully lower-carb meal connected its own, but if you are truly hungry, effort adding a fewer carbs to assistance capable retired the meal.

The concatenation serves the crockery connected apical of tortilla strips, on with a broadside of Mexican Rice and black beans. A scoop of homemade Pico de Gallo on apical of the chickenhearted adds a batch of freshness and colour to the dish. Chopped oregon sliced jalapeno peppers oregon blistery condiment would springiness it an other footwear of heat.

Or alternatively of Mexican rice, you could marque Spanish rice oregon Cilantro rice.

How to Store the Leftovers 

Allow immoderate leftovers to chill to country somesthesia earlier putting them successful an airtight instrumentality oregon a integrative zip apical bag. Seal the container and support it caller successful the fridge for astir 3 days.

If you privation to prevention the Fiesta Lime Chicken Applebees benignant for longer than a fewer days, you tin frost it successful a freezer-safe instrumentality for up to 2 months.

What’s the Best Way to Reheat Fiesta Lime Chicken?

The astir convenient method for reheating thawed chickenhearted is successful the oven:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. While the oven is preheating, enactment the thawed chickenhearted connected the antagonistic to assistance shingle disconnected the chill of the fridge.
3. Put the chickenhearted successful a baking crockery on with a fewer tablespoons of water.
4. Cover the apical of the baking crockery tightly with aluminum foil and cook for astir 10 minutes. 
5. Remove the aluminum foil and proceed to navigator the chickenhearted until the food melts and the interior reaches astatine slightest 165°F. 

More Applebee’s Copycat Recipes

• Applebee’s French Onion Soup
• Bourbon Street Chicken
• Hamburger Quesadilla
• Oriental Dressing

Favorite Chicken Dinner Recipes

• Chicken Katsu
• Chicken Limone
• Chicken Parmigiana
• Cream Cheese Chicken
• Easy Chicken Noodle Casserole
• KFC Chicken
• Monterey Chicken
• Panda Express Orange Chicken
• Ritz Cracker Chicken

Check retired much of my casual recipes for chicken and the champion copycat homemade restaurant dishes connected CopyKat!

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Applebee’s Fiesta Lime Chicken

Applebee's Fiesta Lime Chicken is simply a delicious crockery you tin marque astatine location with this casual copycat recipe.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Applebees Recipes

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 280kcal

Author Stephanie Manley

Ingredients

Chicken Marinade

• 2 large boneless skinless chickenhearted breasts cut into 4 pieces
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon honey
• ⅓ cup water
• ½ teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper

Fiesta Lime Ranch

• ¼ cup ranch dressing
• ¼ cup salsa
• ¼ cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon fresh cilantro chopped
• 1 teaspoon lime
• lime zest
• ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 4 slices Colby jack cheese

Garnish and Serving

• Pico de Gallo for garnish
• tortilla chips for serving
• Mexican rice for serving
• black beans for serving

Instructions

• In a mean mixing bowl, harvester each ingredients for the chickenhearted marinade. Add chickenhearted to the vessel and flip evenly, coating the chickenhearted fully. Cover and spot successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 1 hour.
• Close to the extremity of the marinade time, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and hole a 9×13 baking crockery with non-stick cooking spray.
• Place the chickenhearted retired of the marinade and into the bottommost of the dish.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. As the chickenhearted bakes, juices from the chickenhearted volition accumulate successful the bottommost of the pan.
• Near the extremity of the cook time, premix each of the ingredients for the fiesta lime ranch.
• Remove the chickenhearted from the oven and brushwood the apical of each bosom with the ranch.
• Top with a portion of colby jack food connected each bosom and instrumentality to the oven. Continue baking for 5-7 minutes.
• When done, service the crockery with Mexican rice, pico de gallo, tortilla chips, and/or immoderate different fiesta broadside of your choice.

Notes

Be definite to navigator the chickenhearted until it reaches an interior somesthesia of 165°F.

For a much aggravated flavor, let the chickenhearted to remainder wrong the marinade overnight. Do not marinate the chickenhearted for much than 12 hours.

You tin besides substitute homemade Fiesta Lime Ranch with store-bought.

Nutrition calculation does not see the sides (tortilla chips, rice, and beans).

Nutrition

Calories: 280kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 75mg | Sodium: 571mg | Potassium: 335mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 474IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 221mg | Iron: 1mg