These Shrimp Baking Sheet Fajitas are tangy, spicy, and packed with flavor. Perfect for busy weeknights, this Tex-Mex-inspired shrimp recipe only takes 15 minutes to make.
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Why this Fajita Recipe is a Keeper
- 15 Minute Meal: Have delicious shrimp fajitas ready in just 15 minutes.
- Easy Dinner: Find all of the ingredients for this easy recipe in your kitchen or local grocery store. Make the fajitas all in one pan.
- Family Friendly: Your family is sure to love this recipe, as these quick, easy fajitas are sure to make a great weeknight dinner.
If you’re looking for more easy weeknight dinners, try these: Cajun Shrimp and Grits, Bang Bang Shrimp, and Creamy Shrimp Alfredo.
What Size Shrimp are Best to Make Sheet Pan Fajitas?
While you can use any kind of shrimp for fajitas, it’s best to use large shrimp. Make sure they’re also peeled and deveined.
Ingredient Notes for Easy Sheet Pan Shrimp Fajitas Recipe
These fajitas are super easy to make, and use simple ingredients in a delicious one pan dinner. Just line the sheet pan and add your ingredients, then put the fajitas in the oven and bake.
- Shrimp: Peel and devein 1 pound of large shrimp to make fajitas.
- Bell Peppers: This recipe calls for red and yellow bell peppers, but you can use orange or green bell peppers if you’d like.
- Fajita Seasoning: Season the fajitas with our spice blend.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
Variations and Substitutions for these Fajitas in the Oven
- Vegetables: For more vegetables in the fajitas, add mushrooms, broccoli, squash, and corn.
- Pan: While you can make this recipe with a large baking sheet, you can also bake it in a cast iron pan.
Sheet Pan Meal Pro Tip
Lime juice can cook the shrimp, so if you marinate it, do not do so for more than 15-20 minutes.
How to Make Baking Sheet Shrimp Fajitas
These fajitas are one of our favorite easy dinner recipes. Make using one sheet pan. Just place the shrimp and veggies on the sheet pan, season them, and cook to make one of our favorite sheet pan meals.
These are the basic steps for making sheet pan shrimp fajitas. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.
1. Prepare the Fajitas
Preheat your oven to 400°. Then, lightly spray a large sheet pan or rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray, line your sheet pan with foil, or drizzle some olive oil and evenly coat. Add the peppers and onions to the prepared baking sheet, along with the shrimp.
2. Season the Shrimp
Mix together the homemade fajita seasoning in a small bowl, then add them to the top of your shrimp fajitas and mix well.
3. Bake the Fajitas
Cook the shrimp fajitas for 9 minutes in the oven. Then, remove fajitas from the oven and squeeze lime juice on top of the shrimp.
Sheet Pan Dinner Recipe FAQs
Store leftover fajita mixture in an airtight container in the fridge. It should be good for up to 3-4 days.
You can use leftovers from this sheet pan dinner to make tacos, quesadillas, or kebabs.
Yes; you can make this recipe with boneless skinless chicken breasts, or make steak fajitas instead. However, the cook time will vary depending on the meat you use.
Expert Tips to Make Fajitas
- Salad: Toss all the ingredients over your favorite greens to make a salad.
- Warm the Tortillas: Tortillas can be warm on your sheet pan. Place them on a small sheet of aluminum foil on top of the pan to warm.
- Toppings: For more toppings for your fajitas, try more lime, sour cream, shredded cheese, sautéed spinach, and jalapenos. You can also add chili powder to the seasoning.
- Baked Chicken and Veggies: You can make easy sheet pan chicken fajitas instead of shrimp. Just slice the chicken thighs or breasts and bake for 30 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked. Roll each baked chicken fajita in a warm tortilla.
What to Serve with Sheet Pan Fajitas
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Shrimp Baking Sheet Fajitas
Equipment
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Ingredients
Fajitas
- 1 pound Shrimp, medium, peeled and deveined
- 1 Yellow Bell Pepper , thinly sliced
- 1 Red Bell Pepper , thinly sliced
- 1 Small Onion, thinly sliced
- 3 Limes, halved or quartered (optional)
- Cilantro, optional, for garnish
- 5-6 Tortillas, warmed, optional (opt out for low carb friendly dish)
Fajita Seasoning
- ½ tsp Cumin
- 1 ½ tsp Chili Powder
- ½ tsp Paprika
- 1 tsp Table Salt
- ¾ tsp Garlic Powder
- ¼ tsp Onion Powder
- 1 tsp Cayenne Pepper, optional
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400°.
- Lightly spray your sheet pan with cooking spray, or lightly drizzle some olive oil and evenly coat. Add to your sheet pan your peppers, onion, and shrimp.
- In a small bowl mix together your seasonings. Add to the top of your shrimp fajitas the seasonings. Mix well.
- Cook your shrimp fajitas for 9 minutes in the oven
- Remove from oven, and squeeze lime juice on your shrimp fajitas.
Christina’s Notes
- Salad: Toss all the ingredients over your favorite greens to make a salad.
- Warm the Tortillas: Tortillas can be warmed on your sheet pan. Place them on a small sheet of aluminum foil on top of the pan to warm.
- Toppings: For more toppings for your fajitas, try more lime, sour cream, shredded cheese, sautéed spinach, and jalapenos. You can also add chili powder to the seasoning.
- Baked Chicken and Veggies: You can make easy sheet pan chicken fajitas instead of shrimp. Just slice the chicken thighs or breasts and bake for 30 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked. Roll each baked chicken fajita in a warm tortilla.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
Nutrition
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This recipe is my personal adaption of an ethnic-inspired recipe. It is not intended to be an authentic recipe. I’ve recreated this recipe because I enjoy the flavors and I want to encourage my readers to expand their tastes and try new flavor combinations. The recipe, ingredients, and processes may have been adapted to make the recipe accessible to the average American. I have provided links to authentic versions of the recipe in the post above. I encourage you to visit these pages and learn more about the traditional version(s) of this recipe.