Thai Pizza with Peanut Sauce, Shrimp, Carrots and Broccoli

I have to apologize for not posting too many recipes as of late.  We've been doing a lot of super simple stuff like roasting fish and veggies with salt and pepper.  I didn't think that you need help doing that.  If you do, then I'm happy to help and feel free to shoot us a message.  

We made this Saturday night, I was really craving pizza after my brother stopped by and mentioned he was on his way to go pick up a pizza from a local pizza place.   My normal go to pizza is pepperoni, sausage and mushrooms, LOVE IT!!!  Laura likes her pesto, shrimp with goat cheese combination.  I don't want to say we met in the middle with this one, but maybe...  It had Laura's shrimp and it had some spice that I like in my pizza.  All in all this pizza took maybe 45 minutes to make the dough from scratch, prep the toppings and then bake.  So yeah a little bit longer than a frozen pizza but so much better for you and just as fast a it would take to have a pizza delivered.  

Ingredients

Pizza Dough - This is a modification from the other dough recipe we posted earlier this year.  The other one is completely whole wheat flour.  If you want that recipe you click here.

• 2/3 cup whole wheat flour
• 2/3 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup water, heated to 110 degrees
• 2 tsp honey
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 1 tsp instant yeast
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp Parmesan cheese (optional)

Peanut Sauce - This peanut sauce could be used for anything a marinade for chicken to a dipping sauce for spring rolls.  

• 1/4 cup natural creamy peanut butter
• 1/4  cup water or stock
• 2 tbsp Liquid Aminos or low sodium soy sauce
• 1 tbsp Chili Garlic Sauce
• 1 tsp Sriracha - feel free to adjust depending on how spicy you like  things
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder

Toppings

• 1 cup steamed broccoli, chopped into bite size pieces
• 1/2 cup shredded carrots, raw
• 1 cup cooked shrimp, cut into bite size pieces
• 1/4 cup green onions, finely chopped

Directions

Pizza Dough

1. Mix the water, honey, oil, yeast together to dissolve the honey and also allow the yeast to activate.  Let rest for 5 minutes.  You should see the yeast at work.  I did this right in my stand mixer.
2. Mix together your dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
3. Using the dough hook attachment on your mixer, turn it on at a low speed.  Slowly begin adding your dry ingredients a little at a time.  Once all the dry ingredients are added your dough ball should start climbing up the side of the bowl, when this happens you can stop.  If you do not have a stand mixer, knead the dough for 2 minutes by hand.  
4. Cover the dough and let rest for 20 minutes.
5. After 20 minutes remove the dough. Place on a lightly flour dusted countertop.
6. Roll out into a 6″ circle with your hands trying to keep it as round as possible.  At this point I switched to a rolling pin because my pizza tossing and hand pressing skills are not that good.  I rolled it out to about a 1/4″ thick and it was roughly 12″ across.

Peanut Sauce

1. Combine all the ingredients in a small saucepan and warm over medium heat until peanut butter melts.  After everything comes together, keep on lowest heat setting  until ready to use. 

Assembly

1. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees.  If you using a pizza stone, keep your stone in the oven while you are preheating.  
2. Once your stone and oven are hot, remove stone from the oven.  A trick to keep your dough from sticking to your stone is to sprinkle a little bit of corn meal on the stone before putting your dough on it.  After that, put your dough on the stone.  Brush on a little olive oil.  Using a fork pierce the top of the dough in order to keep it from bubbling up while it bakes.  
3. Put the dough in the oven for 5 minutes WITHOUT any toppings.  It should be slightly brown.  
4. Remove from the oven, add your sauce evenly on the dough, then add your toppings.  Bake for another 6 minutes or until your crust begins brown and crisp up.  
5. Cut and ENJOY!!!