Russian Cabbage Pies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Place 1 TBSP butter in a small dish. Set aside (somewhere warm) to soften.
• Measure flour into large bowl. Add sour cream, sugar, and salt. Beat egg and add. Add softened butter. Stir together thoroughly, adding flour if too sticky to make into a ball. Shape into a ball, and stick in the freezer for 1/2 hour.
• After happily washing up your dough-making mess (you have some time), prepare your cabbage. Put the cabbage in a medium pot with 2 TBSP butter, and cook on medium heat, stirring regularly, about 10 minutes or until tender. While cabbage cooks, boil water in another pot and cook a hardboiled egg.
• After 1/2 hour has passed and your dough ball is cold, stir the hardboiled egg (crumbled) and salt and sugar (to taste) to your pot of cabbage. Turn off the heat. Grease a large pan.
• Roll the dough out to about 3 mm thick, on a floured surface. Cut circles using a mug (or round cookie cutter). Place a spoonful of filling in each circle (one at a time). Pinch closed. Be patient! This takes some practise . . .
• Place dumplings in greased pan. Roll out leftover dough as needed until you've used it all up. (No need to re-refrigerate.).
• Put pan in the oven and cook 20-25 minutes, until fork comes out clean from dough. (This is when you get to clean the rest of the mess! :) ).
• Serve with sour cream, and hot sauce if you like. Enjoy!

Steps:

• 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.
• Sauté several minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly until cabbage is wilted& onions are soft; remove from pan.
• Spray skillet again and sauté 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°F 15 minutes.
• Turn temperature down to 350° and bake 20-25 minutes until crust is light brown.