Thursday, June 30, 2011

Cooking with Microwave Oven - Roasted Chicken Thigh

I am not familiar in cooking with a microwave oven. In fact this is the first time I used microwave oven to roast chicken. That explains the burnt part at the bottom of the chicken because I set the timer to 45 minutes under high heat. Actually 20 minutes are enough to cook this quarter chicken. It is real easy to cook with a microwave oven as it require less time than electric oven.
Since this was my first experiment and cooking adventure with microwave oven, I just used a simple marinate for the quarter chicken thigh. The meat is a little tougher compared with the ones I cooked using electric oven but the skin is crispy.

Ingredients
Quarter chicken, 1 pc
Light soya sauce, 1 tablespoon
Dark soya sauce, enough to rub the chicken skin
Lemon juice, 1 tablespoon
Salt, 1 teaspoons
Honey, for glazing

Marinade chicken with all the ingredients except the honey for around 3 hours. Roast chicken in microwave oven for around 20 minutes under high heat. Take the chicken out and glaze with honey. Roast for another 5 minutes.
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17 comments:

  1. ChristineJune 30, 2011 at 5:16 AM

    interesting. I don't do any microwave cooking, just reheat stuff.

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  2. suituapuiJune 30, 2011 at 7:09 AM

    Never try microwave cooking. Old man - I've this thing against microwave... I'd stick loyally to the tried and tested paths.

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  3. ReanaclaireJune 30, 2011 at 7:54 AM

    I also never tried with my microwave oven, i doubt mine can roast.. :) not canggih enough.. but yours looked very nicely done..

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  4. HayleyJune 30, 2011 at 9:57 AM

    The drumstick looks so big from the photo! haha.
    I've tried this method before, easy and yummy!

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  5. YannieJune 30, 2011 at 10:38 AM

    I also don't know whether my microwave can do this stuff or not. I use microwave solely for reheating purpose.

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  6. [SK]June 30, 2011 at 10:43 AM

    fuyoh!! this huge chicken thigh!! i'm not really into thigh but do you have chicken breast?? hehe.. the gravy must be very nice for rice~~ :p

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  7. Small KucingJune 30, 2011 at 11:57 AM

    wa wa wa....looks nicer that someone's "negro chicken" LOL

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  8. yvonneJune 30, 2011 at 12:11 PM

    Wah! Big juicy chicken drumstick!! Hehe, same like SK, I prefer chicken breast :p

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  9. Somewhere in SingaporeJune 30, 2011 at 12:14 PM

    It looks so good... Feel like having a bite of it now...

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  10. WendyinKK June 30, 2011 at 2:02 PM

    Zapping with microwave will create dry meat. Unless you used the convection function or the grill function on your microwave oven. Not all ovens come with these 2 extra functions. Some microwave ovens even comes with combination function, it microwaves it to cook faster, but yet has heat applied to it to give it a nice "roasted" feel. Usually cooking with "combination" function uses half the amount of time compared to regular roasting.

    When I roast chicken parts using a convection oven, it takes half the time compared to the ovenette, of which is the type I saw you have in your blog.

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  11. ladyviralJune 30, 2011 at 2:39 PM

    hubs has a toaster oven... sounds like this is one good dish for us.

    Good recommendation! I will make hubs see this :P

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  12. AnonymousJune 30, 2011 at 5:17 PM

    hey, how come urs so nice one..i tried once & tak cantik langsung..!

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  13. ShereenJune 30, 2011 at 7:12 PM

    Sexy thigh..awww!

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  14. Alice LawJuly 1, 2011 at 9:57 AM

    Hrm... I'm apprehensive to do dish with microwave oven. Guess I'll give it a try with conventional oven instead!:)

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  15. yummylittlecooksJuly 1, 2011 at 6:35 PM

    Still look nice wor.....:)

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  16. lenaJuly 5, 2011 at 9:16 PM

    never used microwave oven for cooking before except for reheating purpose..

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  17. UnknownNovember 26, 2015 at 11:21 PM

    Can't say I roasted thighs in the microwave but did need some broth so took 4 thighs and covered them with water. Only ttook 10 minutes to cook and were tender and tasty. Will do it again.

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