Applebee’s Loaded Fajitas are a huge hit at our house. They are delicious and easy to put together, but they are also indulgent. If you are watching your carb intake and are looking for a way to try out this tasty recipe that still tastes like a full meal, here is how you do it.
You don’t have to be on a ketogenic diet to enjoy the Applebee’s Loaded Fajitas, but they are a great way to get your daily macros. Now, you can enjoy all these flavors in my Keto style with full keto macros. They are also a great option for the low carb or Keto diet and can be a part of your healthy lifestyle.
The keto diet in particular is one of those diets that lets you have precisely zero restaurant fun, especially when it comes to those standard bar and grill-type places (ahem, Applebee’s) that specialize in the burger-and-fries meals that are are basically outlawed on keto.
Update: As of March 2021 Applebee’s has sadly removed the loaded fajitas from their menu. Be sure to check out our other keto dining guides for helpful tips on how to keep it low carb on the go at other popular restaurants!
Each order of Loaded Fajitas is served with fajita vegetables and Spanish rice and comes with warm flour tortillas, a blend of cheddar cheeses, guacamole, lettuce, lime wedge, sour cream and house-made pico de gallo
Applebee’s recently announced some new menu items including their Loaded Fajitas, and we just had to try our hand at keto-fying the dish.
The original (read: high-carb) order serves up a heaping pile of rice (a big nope for low-carb), flour torillas (boo!), and sauteed peppers & onions with your choice of sirloin steak, chicken, or shrimp. Most notable is the heavy queso pour and bacon bits, along with a plate of shredded cheese, guacamole, pico de gallo, lettuce, and sour cream.
Our resident taste tester Stetson confirmed that this dish is actually delicious when modified for keto!
How to order keto Loaded Fajitas at Applebee’s:
- Ask for an order of Loaded Fajitas and choose steak, chicken, or shrimp as your protein.
- Substitute rice for extra lettuce and ask for no tortillas with your order.
- Boom—Keto Load Fajitas!
While we can’t find the exact nutritional value for the dish without the rice (or tortillas), the difference between the smothered (which includes the queso and bacon bits) and unsmothered platters on their nutritional guide is 3-4g carbs. That means the cheese sauce is relatively low-carb. Score!
Smothered with hot queso and sprinkled with Applewood-smoked bacon, Applebee’s Loaded Fajitas are available in guests’ choice of sirloin steak, chicken, or shrimp, and served on a sizzling skillet.
Stetson was really impressed, not only with the yumminess of this new Applebee’s Loaded Fajitas dish but by the portion size as well. It’s a lot of food to keep you full all day long!
Veg. keto option-
The side house salad has 10g net carbs. Some dressings are loaded with sugar or anchovies though. The safe ones: bleu cheese (3g net carbs), buttermilk ranch (3g net carbs), Italian dressing (5g net carbs), lemon olive oil vinaigrette (0g net carbs), and mexi ranch (3g net carbs).
There are some other side vegetables that are appropriate. Garlicky green beans (7g net carbs), steamed broccoli (4g net carbs), and “fire-grilled veggies” (6g net carbs) which are on the nutritional menu but not on the online menu.
The best defense is a good offense, though, so prepare for a fun night out by doing your research and suggesting one of the spots having drooling keto options.
Try it out for yourself using our keto ordering guidelines, and enjoy all the cheesy, bacon-y, meaty goodness!
More tips for eating keto while dining out.
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