YAY! My first recipe post. I made these Lasagna Rolls like a week or so ago and they were soo yummy! I found the recipe at Six Sister's Stuff. I changed a few things from their recipe though.
Ingredients
9 whole wheat lasagna noodles, cooked
10 oz frozen chopped spinach, thawed and completely drained
15 oz fat free ricotta cheese
3/4cup mozzarella cheese
1 egg
salt and fresh pepper
32 oz jar of spaghetti sauce
9 tbsp (about 3 oz) part skim mozzarella cheese, shredded
Cook and drain noodles according to the package. I think lasagna noodles are a pain to cook. But I found if you put them in the boiling water, and then slowly keep pushing them down so they curl somewhat; then you can turn them horizontal and they curve around the pot.
While the noodles are cooling, in a medium bowl mix together ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, spinach(above says to chop, I didn't chop it), egg and salt and pepper as desired. You'll want to make sure these are really incorporated.
When noodles are around room temperature, lay out on a piece of wax paper, I used foil cause it's what we had. It worked just as well. At this stage preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spread about 1/3 cup of cheese mixture on each noodle. I just put some on the noodle in little section and spread them to be even with my offset spatula. I think the offset spatula worked better than just a knife. But use what you have.
This is what is looks like once you have spread out the cheese mixture on the noodle.
Next take one end of the noodle and gently start to roll it up.
I found it helps to almost roll it directly down, to almost where you started the roll, first.
This just gives a really tight roll. Leave sitting on foil seam side down. It should stay there.
Fill the bottom of a 9x13 pan with enough red sauce to cover the bottom.
I did my rolls one at a time. Transfering them to the baking dish after each roll was done.
Again place the rolls seam side down. This helps them from unrolling during baking
and allows the cheeses to melt and cling to pasta.
Above is what it will kinda look like when you finish your rolls.
I don't have a 9x13 pan so I think mine was about an 6x11 or something.
So I only could get 7 in the first batch. I had 3 rolls after this.
After you have all your rolls in the dish. Cover rolls with as much more sauce you want.
Then top each rolls with about a TBSP of mozzarella cheese. I eye balled this part.
Then cover dish with foil and bake for 40 minutes or until the cheese melts.
I had enough sauce in the dish to add extra when I served it. I had a friend join me for dinner and he brought garlic bread and we also had caeser salads with this. It was DELICIOUS!!
I wanted to wait till the end to say this, but this is a weight watchers recipe! My friend even liked it and I didn't tell him it was a weight watchers recipe.
(sorry we don't have a picture of the rolls on the plate. We were hungry and couldn't wait =] )
