Smoked Salmon Pizza with Crème Fraiche and Dill

You can make your own pizza dough, or buy dough from your favorite pizzeria to make life simple. These are best when they are made and served right away. If you want to make several pizzas, you can stretch the dough ahead of time and place on cookie sheets in the refrigerator until needed.

Makes 1 pizza

1 pizza dough ball

small red onion, very thinly sliced

salt and pepper

olive oil

½ cup crème fraîche

6 ounces sliced gravlax or smoked salmon, thinly sliced

fresh dill

lemon zest

caviar (optional)

Preheat oven to 450.

Stretch the dough out to at least 12-inches, or larger if you want a really thin crust. Place on a large pizza stone or lightly greased cookie sheet. Cover pizza (leaving a small crust around sides with red onion and lightly brush olive oil over entire pizza. Salt and pepper pizza, and place in oven for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden brown and cooked. Remove and allow to cool for 3-4 minutes.

Spread crème fraîche over pizza and cover pizza with salmon. Salt and pepper, and sprinkle fresh dill and lemon zest over. Garnish with caviar if desired. Cut into wedges and serve.

You can also garnish with capers.