Pizza Sooner

While at work on our pizza festival at Foodtasmic, we wanted a little something to tide us over. So we decided to make one of the planned four pizzas first and have it while constructing the remainder.

We stretched one disk into about an 8 inch round. You can roll them out too but stretching gets a thinner result and a nice edge. Since they are small, it’s easy to do.

Smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers sounded good. But that would take careful attention to bake without ruining the salmon. Solution: partially cook the dough before adding the toppings.

What we did was spread a touch of olive oil on the surface and cooked the disk in a sauté pan until just browning on both sides. We let it cool a couple of minutes and spread on the cream cheese. The warm dough made that easy. Topped it with slices of the salmon and sprinkled on a few capers.

The pizza went into the oven for 2 minutes. That’s all it took to firm the bottom and heat the toppings. The result was 4 slices of lusciousness. What a great snack to tide us over while working on the other ones.