Russian Cabbage Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 1/4 cups flour
    1 teaspoon sugar
    1 teaspoon salt
    3 tablespoons butter
    8 ounces softened cream cheese
    butter-flavored cooking spray
    1 yellow onion, peeled and chopped
    1 head cabbage, coarsely shredded
    dried basil or fresh basil, to taste
    fresh marjoram or oregano, to taste
    dried tarragon or fresh tarragon, to taste
    salt and pepper, to taste
    1/2 lb mushroom, washed and sliced
    4 -5 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
    chopped fresh dill
Preparation
    Sift together flour thru salt.
    Cut in butter, then 4 oz cream cheese.
    Roll out 2/3 of dough and line a 9-inch deep-dish pie dish.
    Roll out remaining pastry into a circle big enough to cover dish; chill.
    Spray a large skillet with butter-flavored cooking spray.
    Add onion and cabbage and at least 1/8 tsp (dried) or 1/2 tsp (fresh) of each herb.
    Saute several minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly until cabbage is wilted& onions are soft; remove from pan.
    Spray skillet again and saute mushrooms 5-6 minutes, stirring constantly.
    Spread other 4 oz cream cheese in the bottom of the pie shell.
    Arrange the eggs in a layer over the cream cheese.
    Sprinkle with a little dill, then cover with cabbage mixture, then a layer of the mushrooms.
    Cover with pastry circle, press crusts together tightly at the edges and flute with a fork.
    Cut a few short slashes in the top crust for steam to escape.
    Bake at 400\u00b0F 15 minutes.
    Turn temperature down to 350\u00b0 and bake 20-25 minutes until crust is light brown.

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