thai chicken pizza

made this thursday night. d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s.

i'm using the extra peanut sauce over whole wheat pasta with most of the same ingredients (+some red cabbage) for a thai chicken pasta tonight.

ingredients:
1 trader joes pizza crust (i used whole wheat)

fixins
1/2 lb (or so) mozzarella cheese
green onions (or red if that's what you have)
grated carrots
chopped peanuts
chopped cilantro
bean sprouts
chopped or pulled chicken (if you have it, but this would be just as good vegetarian. i happened to have roasted a few extra chicken breasts on monday for meals through the week)

for the peanut sauce
2 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
2 tablespoons soy sauce (i didn't have any so i used teriyaki sauce!)
1-2 cloves garlic, minced or chopped
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon brown sugar
juice from half a lemon (can be less, depending on your tastes)

while the pizza crust is coming to room temp, i chopped/grated all the toppings, and let the chopped chicken sit in a bit of the sauce for a few min. roll out the dough (as thin as possible works best, to make sure it cooks through), brush on some peanut sauce, pile on cheese + everything else and bake at 450 for 10 min or so.

a pizza stone is great, but a sheet pan works too-- helps to put it in the oven while it's pre heating so that it also gets hot. obviously this would be great with a simple green salad, but since q was asleep and scott wasn't home for dinner i paired it with a glass of white wine and some tv :)