Easy Lasagna Roll Ups | What’s Cookin’ Italian Style Cuisine

Lasagna Rollups take everything you love about traditional lasagna and transform it into perfectly portioned, easy-to-serve rolls.

Tender lasagna noodles are layered with a creamy cheese filling, rolled up, and baked until bubbly and golden.

They’re comforting, family-friendly, and ideal for weeknight dinners, holiday gatherings, or make-ahead freezer meals. Best of all, every bite is packed with cheesy goodness and endless possibilities for customization.

The filling can be anything from just cheese to a variety of loose-cooked meats, even just cheese or vegetables, plus these freeze perfectly for individual servings!.

A complete meal in one casserole dish, great for a potluck or on a buffet table when hosting a dinner party.

If you want to make it even easier, buy premade meat sauce in a jar but you can also make your favorite homemade tomato sauce, or try our Traditional Homemade Sunday tomato sauce

If you love lasagna, you may also like to try our Zucchini Lasagna it’s fabulous!

For those in a hurry, try our Lasagna Soup recipe.

Why Make Easy Lasagna Roll-Ups?

• These are perfect for individual meals, for lunches, or any quick meal
• They freeze perfectly in freezer containers
• Perfect portable lunch filled with any of your favorite fillings
• Customizable for vegetarian meals,  meat and cheese lovers, or ethnic fillings, Italian, Mexican,  or Asian inspired. Any favorite can be adapted for fillings.

Tips, Sauces, and Fillings for Roll-Ups:

• Use any kind of frozen meatballs crushed or make your own recipe for seasoned ground beef meatball mixture.
• Adding a little fennel seed ( around 1 teaspoon) will make the ground meat taste more like sausage.
• These roll-ups can be made two days ahead of time and then just heated when ready to serve.
• For vegetarian lovers, add a layer of thin-sliced zucchini, eggplant, or peppers instead of meat.
• Cook any loose meat in a pan and season with salt and pepper before adding to the roll-ups
• Use escarole, boiled or other greens, if you’re not fond of spinach
• Cook noodles just until al dente to prevent tearing.
• Lay noodles flat on parchment paper after cooking for easier assembly.
• Spread filling evenly from edge to edge for consistent flavor.
• Avoid overfilling to keep the rolls neat and secure.
• Place rolls seam-side down in the baking dish.
• Cover with foil during the first half of baking to prevent drying out.
• Let the rollups rest for 10 minutes before serving.
• Assemble up to 24 hours ahead and refrigerate until ready to bake.
• Freeze unbaked roll-ups for a convenient future meal.
• For a homemade Traditional Tomato Sauce recipe, try our homemade sauce
• Try these other sauces to make a new rollups everytime: Roasted red pepper cream sauce, Vodka sauce, Four-cheese sauce, Mushroom cream sauce, Brown butter sage sauce, Spinach Alfredo sauce, Sun-dried tomato cream sauce, Lemon garlic butter sauce, White wine cream sauce, Basil cream sauce, Gorgonzola cream sauce, Butternut squash sauce

Try Some Alternative Variations for Lasagna Rollups

• All vegetables should be diced finely
• Artichoke hearts drained
• Thinly sliced eggplant
• Thinly sliced zucchini
• Sliced fresh tomatoes
• Thinly sliced mushrooms
• Julienne peppers
• Steamed chopped broccoli
• Steamed chopped cauliflower
• All meat must be cooked first:
• Ground lamb
• Ground pork
• Ground sweet or hot sausage
• Ground beef
• Ground Turkey
• A mixture of ground meats
• Spinach and ricotta
• Italian sausage and mozzarella
• Ground beef and Parmesan
• Shredded chicken with buffalo sauce
• Alfredo-seasoned ricotta. rotisserie chicken
• Beef gravy with shredded beef
• Roasted vegetables and goat cheese
• Mushrooms, spinach, and Fontina
• Pesto chicken and mozzarella
• Three-cheese blend with fresh herbs
• Crab and ricotta for a seafood version
• Buffalo chicken and blue cheese
• Taco meat filling
• Ham and Swiss-inspired filling
• Zucchini and roasted red peppers

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Easy Lasagna Roll-Up Casseroles

We love easy recipes like this one, all-in-one pan.

This casserole is a fun addition to a buffet table when hosting a party for individual servings.

Add a deep bowl/dish full of warm tomato sauce for those who prefer lots of tomato sauce on their pasta, and don’t forget the red pepper flakes and more grated cheese on the table. You may also like to try our homemade Sunday Meat Sauce when time allows.

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Author: Claudia Lamascolo

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Easy Lasagna Roll Ups

These are a fun way to serve lasagna noodles. These are filled with a variety of meat, cheeses, or spinach then swimming in tomato sauce topped with melted mozzarella cheese.

Prep time: 30 MinCook time: 40 MinTotal time: 1 H & 10 M

Ingredients

• 1- 16-ounce package of lasagna (boiling kind)
• 2 -16-ounce containers of whole milk ricotta cheese (drained through a cheesecloth or use a coffee filter)
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf Italian parsley
• 1/2 cup grated blended Pecorino Romano and Parmesan cheese
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic powder
• Additional Filling Options: 2 10-ounce packages of spinach, thawed, drained, and blotted dry with paper towels; be sure to squeeze out all the water, or 2 cups of meat of choice (thin slices of pepperoni, loose cooked sausage, or crushed meatballs, fresh or frozen, thawed and crushed)
• 4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
• 2 jars of tomato meat sauce, or make your own homemade Italian meat tomato sauce

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and lightly oil a 13 x 9 baking casserole pan.
2. Boil the lasagna according to package instructions, drain, and immediately toss it with a small amount of olive oil to coat the noodles to keep them from sticking together.
3. In a medium-sized bowl, stir the ricotta cheese with the eggs, grated cheese, parsley, and seasonings (salt, pepper, and garlic).
4. Filling Variations:
5. Spinach Filling: Add thawed spinach (drained and blotted dry with paper towels) to the ricotta mixture with 2 cups of shredded mozzarella.
6. Meat Filling Additions: You will need around 2 to 3 cups of crushed meat of your choice. Crushed cooked meat can be slices of pepperoni (1 package), loose-cooked sausage, a mixture of sausage and meatballs crushed together, or just crushed meatballs. Place a few tablespoons of crushed meat after you’ve spread the noodles with the ricotta, then add the meat on top of the ricotta cheese mixture before rolling up.
7. Note: For the pepperoni, place around 6 slices on top of the ricotta mixture per noodle.
8. For Assembling the Ricotta-Filled Noodles:
9. Spread the ricotta mixture evenly on the lasagna strips.
10. Add any meat or spinach.
11. Roll up each strip.
12. Pour sauce on the bottom of the pan, place roll-ups seam-side-down in the sauce, then add more sauce, and end with more sauce, then shredded mozzarella.
13. Cover loosely.
14. Bake in a 350-degree oven for around 40 to 50 minutes until the cheese is melted and the sauce is bubbling.

Notes

Tips for Easy Lasagna Roll-Ups:

• Use any kind of frozen meatballs, crushed or make your own recipe for seasoned ground beef meatball mixture.
• Adding a little fennel seed ( around 1 teaspoon) will make the ground meat taste more like sausage.
• These roll-ups can be made two days ahead of time and then just heated when ready to serve.
• For vegetarian lovers, add a layer of thin-sliced zucchini, eggplant, or peppers instead of meat.
• Cook any loose meat in a pan and season with salt, and pepper before adding to the roll-ups
• Use escarole, boiled or other greens if you’re not fond of spinach
• Cook noodles just until al dente to prevent tearing.
• Lay noodles flat on parchment paper after cooking for easier assembly.
• Spread filling evenly from edge to edge for consistent flavor.
• Avoid overfilling to keep the rolls neat and secure.
• Place rolls seam-side down in the baking dish.
• Cover with foil during the first half of baking to prevent drying out.
• Let the rollups rest for 10 minutes before serving.
• Assemble up to 24 hours ahead and refrigerate until ready to bake.
• Freeze unbaked roll-ups for a convenient future meal.
• For a homemade Traditional Tomato Sauce recipe, try our homemade sauce
• Try these other sauces to make a new rollups everytime: Roasted red pepper cream sauce, Vodka sauce, Four-cheese sauce, Mushroom cream sauce, Brown butter sage sauce, Spinach Alfredo sauce, Sun-dried tomato cream sauce, Lemon garlic butter sauce, White wine cream sauce, Basil cream sauce, Gorgonzola cream sauce, Butternut squash sauce

Try Some Alternative Variations for Lasagna Rollups

• All vegetables should be diced finely
• Artichoke hearts drained
• Thinly sliced eggplant
• Thinly sliced zucchini
• Sliced fresh tomatoes
• Thinly sliced mushrooms
• Julienne peppers
• Steamed chopped broccoli
• Steamed chopped cauliflower
• All meat must be cooked first:
• Ground lamb
• Ground pork
• Ground sweet or hot sausage
• Ground beef
• Ground Turkey
• A mixture of ground meats
• Spinach and ricotta
• Italian sausage and mozzarella
• Ground beef and Parmesan
• Shredded chicken with buffalo sauce
• Alfredo-seasoned ricotta. rotisserie chicken
• Beef gravy with shredded beef
• Roasted vegetables and goat cheese
• Mushrooms, spinach, and Fontina
• Pesto chicken and mozzarella
• Three-cheese blend with fresh herbs
• Crab and ricotta for a seafood version
• Buffalo chicken and blue cheese
• Taco meat filling
• Ham and Swiss-inspired filling
• Zucchini and roasted red peppers

Nutrition Facts

Sodium (milligrams)

257 mg

Cholesterol (grams)

54 mg

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