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Why not just bet the flop? It's not like you are way ahead, so it wouldn't be terrible if they folded.
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Betting out is not ideal. Here is a quote from
Paul Phillips on a straight-flush draw hand:
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This hand is in a specific, important category of hands: those that cannot be large dogs (absolute worst case scenario you're a 2-1 dog, and even if he has a set you're only 3-2) but also cannot be large favorites -- you are at real risk to end up with queen high after all.
With this category of hands you must try to engineer the betting so that you are all-in first. You need folding equity in this situation more than in any other situation where you like your hand. If your opponent folds he will invariably be folding the best made hand, and this can never be a bad thing for you.
So if moving all-in on the flop is not a giant overbet you should do that, and if it is, then you should go for a check-raise. The nice thing about check-raising hands like this is that it's risk free; if he checks behind you it's no skin off your nose. A free card is just fine with this hand.
I'm sure you would have been called in this scenario by AJ, but that's no tragedy. It's the alternate universes where the guy lays down second pair or whatever that make getting all-in first important.
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