Holiday dishes don’t get better than this.

It’s festive, chic — and unbelievably effortless. In short, everything you want when you want to impress, but are loathe to break out in a sweat to do it.

Leave it to the Bay Area’s Joanne Weir to come up with this dazzling “Endive Salad with Lemon Creme Fraiche and Salmon Roe.”

It’s from her new cookbook, “Kitchen Gypsy: Recipes and Stories From A Lifelong Romance with Food” (Oxmoor House), of which I received a review copy.

The cookbook is filled with the dishes that most influenced the life of this long-time PBS cooking show host, who cooked for five years at Berkeley’s Chez Panisse, and now owns Copita in Sausalito.

The 10 chapters are divided into pivotal points in her life, with recipes honoring them, such as “Scalloped Oysters,” which her mother made every Christmas; “Little Gem and Pickled Cucumber Salad with Green Goddess Dressing” from her time working at Chez Panisse; and “Fried Pork Belly Tacos with Pipian Sauce” from the Copita menu.

With its emphasis on ingredient-driven cooking, it’s no surprise that the endive salad is in the Chez Panisse chapter.

Probably the hardest part of this dish — and it’s not all that cumbersome — is acquiring the salmon eggs. For me, all it took was making a stop at my local Japanese market.

Those jewel-like eggs accent crisp, mildly bitter endive leaves that get dressed with a lemony creme fraiche dressing and fresh-snipped chives.

In fact, if you take care in arranging everything, this could easily be turned into an hors d’oeuvre neatly eaten with the fingers with the self-containing endive leaves cradling the creme fraiche and salmon eggs.

Imagine that with a glass of Champagne. I sure could.

Endive Salad with Lemon Creme Fraiche and Salmon Roe

(Serves 6)

8 heads Belgian endive

1 cup creme fraiche, at room temperature

1/2 teaspoon grated lemon zest

2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

2 ounces salmon roe

2 tablespoons very thinly sliced chives

1 bunch chervil, or leaves of 1 small head frisee

Trim off the base of an endive head and discard. Remove any leaves that are loose and place in a large bowl. cut off another roughly 1/4-inch of the endive base and continue to separate the whole leaves until the endive head is reduced to leaves. As you work, add the leaves to a bowl with the others. Repeat with remaining endive heads.

In a small bowl, stir together the creme fraiche and lemon zest and juice, mixing well. Season with salt and pepper.

To serve, toss the endive leaves with the creme fraiche mixture. Transfer the dressed leaves to a platter. Spoon the salmon roe evenly over the endive. Garnish with the chives and chervil sprigs.

From “Kitchen Gypsy” by Joanne Weir

More Endive Recipes to Try: Tangle of Radicchio and Endive with Chives and Maytag Blue

And: Braised Endive in Mustard Vinaigrette

And: Braised Endive with Gorgonzola

And: Roasted Endive with Sherry Vinegar