Belated Food Friday: Asian Pizza

Sorry this post is late, last week was crazy busy. Pizza is by far my favorite food because you can change up the ingredients to make a variety of pizza flavors. Here’s a recipe for an Asian pizza that Zach and I love:

Asian Pizza
vegan option, low fat

Sauce Ingredients:

½ c rice vinegar

½ c water

¼ c brown sugar

1 T minced ginger

2 T peanut butter

4 garlic cloves

1 T canola oil

½ t red pepper flakes

Pizza Ingredients:

Trader Joe’s Whole Wheat Pizza Dough – we used ½ of the dough to make a thin crust and save on calories

1 c shredded mozzarella cheese – we used Daiya to keep the pizza vegan

1 c chopped carrots

1 c shredded purple cabbage

1 c chicken, cooked and chopped – we used soy chicken to keep the pizza vegan

1 bunch green onions, chopped

1 handful chopped cilantro

Instructions:

1.       Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

2.       Heat all sauce ingredients over medium heat in a sauté pan. Cook, stirring frequently, until sauce is thick. This takes about 10 minutes.

3.       To assemble pizza, roll out dough, sprinkle on cheese, then spread on sauce, then top with carrots, cabbage, and chicken.

4.       Bake in oven for 15 minutes. Sprinkle on green onions and cilantro before serving.  

I like this recipe because it's easy to put together and requires minimal prep work. Also, it's delicious.

Here's Zach prepping the sauce. We didn't have brown sugar so we tried to sub in pureed dates (that's the brown pile of mush you see in this picture). That was a mistake - please don't do this. If you don't have sugar sub in honey, that's what we ended up topping the pizza with to make it palatable.

This is the pizza before baking, you actually put the cheese on the bottom of this pizza, it's yummier that way for some reason.

Ready to eat!