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This easy veggie fajitas recipe delivers a sizzing, flavorful dinner to the table in less than 30 minutes! Importantly, it has lots of flexibility to make a dish perfectly suited for everyone in your family. Plus, prep the best vegetarian fajitas ahead of time and save even more time. 

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Why You’ll Love this Vegetarian Fajita Recipe!

Vegan fajitas are one of my easy go-to family dinners. The marinade makes the best vegan fajita seasoning and tastes amazing. Because there’s no need to let the marinade sit on the veggies, there’s no waiting time. Just mix it up and cook, making this perfect for quick weeknight meals.

Additionally, make the meal even heartier by adding black or pinto beans. Then everyone can add toppings to make it their way. As a result, these veggie fajitas make a tasty meal the whole family loves especially when served up with more vegan Mexican favorites. Try them with cauliflower Spanish rice, spicy black beans, or an easy make-ahead southwest quinoa salad.

Ingredients for Veggie Fajitas Recipe

Simple fresh ingredients are the name of the game when it comes to vegetarian fajitas!

ingredients for Grilled Veggie Fajitas laid out on a white surface
  • Lime juice: Use freshly squeezed lime juice for the best flavor.
  • Oil: You can use your favorite vegetable cooking oil.
  • Veggie fajitas seasoning: Dried oregano, cumin, and chili powder.
  • Fresh cilantro: Adding some chopped cilantro adds the perfect amount of freshness to the marinade. If you don’t like cilantro you can use parsley.
  • Veggies: Onion, bell peppers, zucchinis, and tomatoes.
  • Garlic cloves: Freshly minced garlic work the best.
  • Jalapeño: Tossed in with the veggies for a bit of spice. Alternatively, deseed them and remove the membrane for a less spicy flavor.
  • Tortillas: Make sure to choose the slightly larger fajita style. Prefer homemade? Also, you can make homemade flour tortillas instead!

How To Make Fajitas Vegetarian

bowl of mixed spices, oil, and lime

Step 1: Start by making the marinade. First, combine the lime juice, oil, spices, cilantro, and salt and pepper to taste. Then mix it up well.

process shot of adding bowl of spices and oil mixture to pan of veggies

Step 2: Prep the veggies and combine the onion, bell peppers, zucchini, garlic, and jalapenos in a bowl. Next, add the marinade and toss the veggies to cover them completely. Hands work great for this!

process shot of adding red bell pepper to pan of veggies

Step 3: Add the vegetables to a large skillet and cook on medium-high heat until tender, about 6 to 7 minutes. At the last minute, add the tomatoes so that they are lightly cooked.

process shot of mixed veggies being cooked in a pan

Step 4: Lightly toast tortillas over medium heat. Finally, serve them up filled with the fajita vegetables!

Toni’s Recipe Tips for Veggie Fajitas

  • Adjust the flavors. Don’t like a lot of lime? Instead, use one lime to reduce the flavor. Like it spicy? Then use more chilies! Likewise, there’s a lot you can do to make this vegetarian fajita recipe your own!
  • Don’t overcook the veggies. Leaving them a little bit crisp-tender makes better veggie fajitas!

FAQs for this Vegetarian Fajita Recipe

How to cut veggies for fajitas?

The best way to cut veggies for fajitas is into similar-sized long strips. Strips make the fajitas easier to roll up and cutting them into similar-sized pieces allows everything to cook up in the same amount of time. 

For onions, cut them in half first, and with the root end facing you. Then cut them into one-half-inch or larger strips going from one side to the other.

Remove the seeds from bell peppers and slice them into similar-sized one-half-inch strips. If using squash, they work great cut into strips or half-coin shapes. Meanwhile, cut tomatoes into wedges. If using small veggies such as mushrooms that don’t cut into strips, just be sure to slice them.

What vegetables are good in fajitas?

The most common ingredients served in fajitas are onions and colored bell peppers. When making vegetarian fajitas, there are plenty more options! Also, mushrooms work great, either cremini or portobellos. Other possible ideas are sweet potatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, butternut squash, tomatoes, tomatillos, eggplant, and corn.

completed Grilled Veggie Fajitas on a white speckled plate with veggies in the background

Best Toppings for Veggie Fajitas

Traditional: Vegan sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole are the usual toppings for veggie fajitas! Here are a few others:

Variations on Vegan Fajitas

  • Grilled fajitas: Cook the veggies on foil over an outdoor grill or use a cast iron grill pan which will give the veggies an appearance, though not the flavor of grilling.
  • Add some beans: If you want to add some plant-based protein, canned black or pinto beans are an easy solution. Just be sure to drain them well and add them in when cooking the veggies. 
  • Sheet pan fajitas: After tossing the veggies in the marinade, spread them out on a sheet pan and cook in the oven at 400° F for 15-20 minutes or until tender.

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Easy Plant-Based Veggie Fajitas

5 from 61 votes
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 10 minutes
Total: 20 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
completed Grilled Veggie Fajitas on a white speckled plate with veggies in the background
This easy veggie fajitas recipe delivers a sizzing, flavorful dinner to the table in less than 30 minutes! It has lots of flexibility to make a dish perfectly suited for everyone in your family. Prep the best vegetarian fajitas ahead of time and save even more time. 
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Ingredients 

  • Juice from 2 limes
  • 2 to 4 Tablespoons of oil
  • 1 teaspoon of dried oregano
  • 1 teaspoon of dried cumin
  • ½ teaspoon of chili powder
  • ¼ cup of fresh cilantro chopped
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 large onion cut into wedges
  • 2 bell peppers cut into strips (any color)
  • 2 small zucchinis halved and cut into strips
  • 4 garlic cloves missed
  • 1 jalapeño cut into thin strips
  • 1 tomato cut into wedges
  • 8 to 12 flour tortillas fajita style

Instructions 

  • For the marinade, in a small bowl, combine and stir together the juice of limes, oil, spices, cilantro, and salt and pepper to taste.
    bowl of mixed spices, oil, and lime
  • Combine the onion, bell peppers, zucchini, garlic, and jalapenos in a bowl, add marinade, and mix well. You can use your hands for this. You don't need to let the marinade sit with the veggies.
    sliced veggies on a cutting board
  • Grill the vegetables in a large skillet on medium-high heat and cook for about 6 to 7 minutes, or until tender. Add tomatoes at the last minute so that they are lightly cooked.
    process shot of mixed veggies being cooked in a pan
  • Lightly toast tortillas over medium heat and place grilled vegetables in them.

Notes

  • Adjust the flavors. Don’t like a lot of lime? Use one lime instead to reduce the flavor. Like it spicy? Then use more chilies! There’s really a lot you can do to make this veggie fajita recipe your own!
  • Don’t overcook the veggies. Leaving them a little bit crisp-tender makes a better veggie fajita!

Nutrition

Calories: 411kcalCarbohydrates: 60gProtein: 10gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 7gSodium: 709mgPotassium: 596mgFiber: 7gSugar: 10gVitamin A: 2443IUVitamin C: 106mgCalcium: 186mgIron: 5mg

Additional Info

Author: Miranda Rivera
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Mexican
Method: Stovetop
Diet: Vegan
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  3. 5 stars
    My favorite Mexican-inspired dish! This recipe is even better than the one I get at our local Mexican restaurant. YUM!

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  13. 5 stars
    These fajitas came out very good, I think from the flavor of the lime juice. I would not have thought to include zucchini, but it soaked up the taste well plus I had a huge one in the house to use up, Thanks!

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  16. 5 stars
    These fajitas were so simple, fresh and delicious. Everyone here loved them. Will definitey make these again.

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    1. Yay to them being a hit! There’s nothing like an easy and delicious dinner like these veggie fajitas!

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