Easy Roast Chicken

This is a rustic way of cooking chicken and I love the crust. You must cook the chicken with it's skin on when roasting, otherwise its not a roast chicken at all.

Ingredients (serves 4-6):
One whole chicken, with skin on, cut into large pieces
6 large cloves garlic with skin on, just give it a pound
1 tsp garlic paste
2 large onions, cut into 8 pieces, so they will be about 1" squares in size
1 tbsp pepper powder
1 tsp vinegar
1 tsp sugar
4 tsp oil
salt to taste
1 cup fresh button mushrooms, halved

Method:
Marinate the chicken with 2 tbsp oil, vinegar, pepper powder, garlic paste, sugar and salt for atleast 3 hours.
Heat the remaining oil in a pan and saute the onions, then add the whole garlic cloves. Turn up the heat and fry the chicken, reserving the liquid. Wait till it browns. Now lower heat and add the mushrooms and the reserved liquid. Transfer to a baking dish and bake on medium for 15 minutes. The liquid will be more or less absorbed. Serve with boiled veggies or mashed potatoes and peas.