Lasagna Roll Ups

A while back Liz told me about some restaurant that came out with a new dish that I would like. I like lasagna and I love manicotti so how can you go wrong rolling lasagna up like manicotti? So today I decided to finally try my hand at Lasagna Rolls. Who needs a recipe, I know how to make lasagna and I'm just going to roll it up, so what's the big deal right... Well it actually was that easy and it was amazing I'm going to have to make this for my parents the next time I'm in Jackson.

Ingredients:

3 Cheese Filling

This is the same cheese ish that I used for the ravioli (it's very versatile stuff).
15 oz ricotta

¼ cup mozzarella cheese

¼ cup parmesian cheese

1 egg

1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

Other stuff
10 lasagna noodles
1 package Italian sausage (12 oz or closest you can find) I used turkey
2 ½ cups spaghetti sauce (1 jar of the store bought kind)
3 cups mozzarella cheese (minus the ¼ cup for the cheese filling)

Once again I used whole wheat pasta and turkey sausage but it shouldn't make a difference.


Cook the pasta according to the directions. While the pasta is doing it's thing, fry the sausage. You probably still have time, so go ahead and mix all of the ingredients for the cheese filling. So as a side note I noticed something today, I wont eat this because it has raw egg in it but cookie dough I'm fine with, how odd it that.


When everything is ready preheat the oven to 375º . Spread 2 spoonfuls of cheese filling over a noodle sprinkle with sausage and roll up.


Put the rolled up noodles in the pan seam side down. repeat until you run out of noodles. I used a 9x13 pan and had too much space between all of the roll ups. I think I will use a 7x11 pan next time.


When all of the roll ups are done, sprinkle the rest of the mozzarella cheese over the top and cover with tin foil. Bake for 45 min. Remove the tin foil and bake for another 10 min. Another side note the extra 10 min that all of my recipes call for is perfect for the garlic bread, I throw it in the toaster oven at the same time that I pull the tin foil off the lasagna (or whatever I'm making) and they come out at the same time. Do you think it was planned that way?

I really enjoyed these and they were easy to make (ok, not compared to Baked Penne but you can't compare it to something that you assemble by throwing it in a bowl). It did take a few min longer then I thought it would. I didn't really add much time for assembling the roll ups. Don't worry I wasn't late for work or anything it only took a few minutes longer but don't forget to add some time for that.