Preparation:

• Peel and chop garlic pods.
• Clean chicken pieces properly and remove extra water completely.

Recipe for making the garlic chicken roast:

How to make garlic sauce:

• Heat butter in a pan, add finely chopped garlic, fry until raw flavor disappear.
• Add oregano leaves, soya sauce, salt, and pepper powder. Mix well.
• Finally, add some lemon juice.
• Switch off and set aside. Garlic sauce is ready.

Garlic sauce marination:

• Slit cleaned chicken pieces in four or five places as shown.
• Apply the garlic sauce generously on all the sides such that the sauce reaches inside the chicken.
• Keep this marination for an hour. But if you don't have time, just ten minutes of marination would be fine.

How to grill garlic chicken using microwave oven:

• To begin with, apply butter or oil in the baking tray, place the marinated chicken pieces.
• Preheat the oven to 180°C. Start convection cook mode (bake mode) and set the timer for 20mins.
• After five minutes of cooking, open the microwave door, flip the pieces.
• Similarly, after ten minutes of cooking take the baking tray out, drizzle oil, flip the pieces and put the tray back in oven and cook for the remaining ten minutes.
• Totally after 20mins of baking in convection mode, take out the tray. By this time chicken pieces are cooked tenderly.
• Transfer the pieces to the tall grilling metal rack, and keep inside the oven.
• Now set the grilling mode ON by pressing the respective button and set the timer for 10mins.
• Let the cooked chicken pieces grill for ten minutes.
• Serve the tenderly cooked juicy, flavorful garlic chicken roast with a tomato ketchup.

How to grill garlic chicken in Tawa:

• If you don't have an oven, then use a normal dosa tawa or grilled Tawa to make this garlic chicken.
• Just heat the tawa with butter or oil, place to the sauce marinated chicken pieces. Reduce the flame to low temperature and cover with a lid.
• Cook each side of the chicken for 5 mins. Flip in between and be careful not to burn the bottom.
• Every time after flipping, cover with the lid again and drizzle oil for each side.
• For boneless chicken garlic, it takes just 10mins in total for each batch.
• And if you use chicken pieces with bones, minimum 15mins are required to cook the pieces completely.
• Once when the chicken is done with cooking, remove the lid, drizzle few drops of oil and continue to roast to get grilled feel for 5more minutes.