If you’re like us and on a real food diet, there are some things that you just miss. Like lunchmeat. Slightly sweet, salty, cold meat is quite satisfying on a hot day or when you’re out running errands. Sure, there are “natural” commercial brands available, but they still have a long list of ingredients and are often made from the meat of animals that are raised in confinement feeding operations eating corn, soy, and other cheap junk feedstuffs common to industry. Even “organic” operations can use certain chemicals and can employ feedlot-style practices to finish the livestock rearing process. I have yet to see a pasture-raised deli meat for sale at any store!
Here’s a really simple recipe for making your lunchmeat with no nitrates, preservatives, or other icky ingredients! The hardest step is remembering to thaw out the meat!
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Nice! This is exactly why I googled “how to cook chicken breast for sandwich meat”. I love deli meat but I can’t find sustainably/ethically raised deli meat anywhere. I thought it was funny that your recipe cited the reason I came here as well. Thanks a bunch!
I only cooked 1.5 lbs of chicken which were 3 small breasts. It took about an hour and 20 minutes to cook all the way through but turned out moist and flavorful! I would suggest doing more than an hour of soak in cold water however as it is still very salty. All in all I’m very happy to finally have a lunch meat I can eat!
I would use less salt next time you make it. I usually use about 1 tsp and it comes out really tasty.