Lasagna Roll Ups | Diethood

These vegetarian lasagna roll ups are deliciously saucy, tacky, and full of recent zucchini. It’s a flavorful spin on traditional lasagna that’s make-ahead and freezer-friendly. 

Bask in tacky Lasagna Roll Ups, a inventive twist on the beloved traditional lasagna. Relatively than the standard layering, we’ve spiraled tender lasagna noodles round scrumptious fillings of melty cheese and juicy zucchini. Every roll is an ideal portion, generously smothered in savory marinara, and each chew is as superb because the final. It’s all of the flavors you like in lasagna reworked into handy, individually portioned rolls!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Meal Prep. Lasagna roll ups are nice for make forward! As soon as baked, retailer your lasagna substances in particular person parts for simple freezing and reheating. 
• Tasty. These rolls are full of recent zucchini combined with velvety ricotta, cream cheese, and a melty cheese mix. Pour over your favourite jarred marinara sauce, and the flavors are second to none.
• Versatile. You may make this recipe meatless or not, and fill the lasagna roll ups with much more scrumptious substances and add-ins.

Substances for Lasagna Roll Ups

This meal is a good way to show easy substances into a tremendous, make-ahead dinner.

• Tomato Sauce: Use your favourite store-bought tomato sauce or marinara sauce.
• Lasagna Noodles: Every lasagna sheet makes one roll-up. Use the flat sheets or the ruffled edges noodles.
• Cream Cheese: You need to use fat-free cream cheese or use full-fat. 
• Ricotta Cheese: Ricotta is a delicate Italian cheese. You need to use cottage cheese as a substitute in case you like.
• Shredded Cheese: I exploit a pre-shredded cheese mix of mozzarella, provolone, romano, and asiago cheese within the lasagna filling.
• Eggs: Provides moisture to the cheese mix and helps to carry every thing collectively.
• Garlic and Parsley: Herbs and garlic add taste to the filling.
• Salt and Pepper
• Zucchini: Shredded zucchini is my vegetable of alternative. Spinach and mushrooms are additionally good choices.
• Mozzarella: Further mozzarella for topping the roll-ups.

The way to Make Lasagna Roll Ups

Able to roll? You possibly can have these savory, saucy lasagna roll ups on the desk in below an hour!

1. Prep. Pre-cook the lasagna noodles, then drain and rinse them. In the meantime, unfold spaghetti sauce on the underside of a 9×13” baking dish.
2. Make the filling. Stir collectively the cheese, eggs, garlic, parsley, and salt and pepper in a big bowl, and fold in shredded zucchini.
3. Assemble and roll. Lay out the cooked lasagna noodles on a foil-lined baking sheet(s). Unfold the cheese filling evenly over every noodle sheet and roll them up tight. 
4. End and bake. Switch your roll-ups to the baking dish, pour over further tomato sauce, and high with shredded mozzarella. Lastly, bake the lasagna roll ups at 375ºF for 35 to 40 minutes.
5. Get pleasure from! Serve the lasagna rolls with a facet of salad or garlic bread, and dig in. You too can retailer these for simple meal prep, see under for extra concepts.

Recipe Ideas and Variations

• Grate the cheese recent from the block. A bundle of pre-grated cheese is handy, however you probably have time, grate your personal cheese.
• Boil additional lasagna noodles in case a number of the pasta breaks or tears whereas it cooks or when you roll it. Watch out solely to boil the lasagna noodles to al dente, and don’t overcook.
• To maintain the lasagna sheets from sticking collectively, maintain them lined in chilly water when you work.
• Meat sauce. Add cooked floor beef or pork sausage to the tomato sauce, or substitute the marinara on this recipe along with your favourite meat sauce or ragu.
• Extra greens. Bulk up the filling with diced sautéd mushrooms, canned or frozen spinach, eggplant, or cherry tomatoes. A rolled-up model of my butternut squash lasagna would even be superb.
• Herbs. Rather than parsley, be happy to make use of one other recent herb like basil, thyme, or rosemary.
• Healthful. For a lighter variation, attempt my zucchini lasagna roll ups that swap lasagna noodles for recent zucchini slices! 

Serving Recommendations

How To Make-Forward

• To make forward, you may prep the lasagna roll ups as much as 24 hours forward, depart them unbaked,  and maintain them lined within the fridge till you’re able to bake them. Or, freeze the ready roll-ups for as much as 1 month. Thaw them within the fridge in a single day after which bake as directed.
• To meal prep, portion out the cooked lasagna rolls into hermetic containers and retailer them within the fridge for as much as 5 days. You too can freeze a number of the parts for longer-term storage.

Storing and Reheating Leftovers

• Fridge. Retailer Any leftover lasagna roll ups in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3-4 days. Reheat the rolls within the microwave or within the oven till sizzling all through.
• Freezer. These lasagna roll-ups freeze nicely. Switch them to an hermetic, freezer-safe container and maintain them frozen for as much as 3 months. You possibly can thaw these rolls in a single day within the fridge or warmth them within the microwave straight from frozen (use the defrost setting first).

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