Taisen's lasagna roll ups

taisen76
taisen76 @cook_3888137
Bel Air , Maryland

I wanted to make lasagna, but needed to use what I had on hand. It turned out pretty good. The kids were happy with it. Mine needed more so next time I'm adding in some things like mushrooms, spinach and meat in the sauce. Surprisingly there is leftovers as the kids said eating one with the sides to made them full. So that's a plus. I hope if anyone makes it you enjoy it !

Taisen's lasagna roll ups

I wanted to make lasagna, but needed to use what I had on hand. It turned out pretty good. The kids were happy with it. Mine needed more so next time I'm adding in some things like mushrooms, spinach and meat in the sauce. Surprisingly there is leftovers as the kids said eating one with the sides to made them full. So that's a plus. I hope if anyone makes it you enjoy it !

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Ingredients

  1. 1 boxlasagna noodles
  2. 5-6 clovesgarlic minced
  3. 1 containercottage cheese
  4. 1 containerricotta cheese
  5. 1-2 bagsmozzarella cheese (we used two bags of 2 cups of cheese)
  6. parmesean cheese (desired amount)
  7. to tastesalt and pepper
  8. to tastebasil
  9. to tasteoregano
  10. to tasteparsley
  11. 1-2 jarsyour favorite spaghetti sauce or your homemade sauce (we used 2 jars because we made two dishes)
  12. 1onion
  13. mushrooms, if you want
  14. spinach, if you want
  15. 1 tablespoonbutter to fry your onion and garlic (you can use less or use oil)

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Start your water boiling for the noodles. Add in some salt. Once it starts to boil start adding noodles. When they are about done, move the noodles into a bowl of water or something big enough to add them all into the water. This keeps them from sticking. If you have a different way, please use it.

  2. 2

    Chop up your garlic and onion. Put them in a frying pan with about a tablespoon of butter or oil. Add in a little bit of parsley, basil and oregano. Cook until they are translucent.

  3. 3

    In a bowl mix your cottage cheese with parmesean cheese, basil, parsley and oregano. Don't over do the spices. Mix well. If the cottage cheese is to wet add in more parmesean cheese or you can use an egg. I didn't use an egg and it was fine. I also added in extra garlic powder. You can add salt and pepper if you like or leave it out. Mix well. I don't like riccata so the cottage cheese were for mine.

  4. 4

    In a separate bowl add in your riccata cheese. Add in same ingredients - garlic powder, basil, oregano and parsley. My husband added some of the extra cottage cheese to this as well. You can add salt and pepper if you like or leave it out. My husband and kids like riccata and sometimes they blend it with cottage to.

  5. 5

    Put some sauce in your onions and stir. Taste for flavor. Add anything you need to your desired taste. I did this with mine. I'm not a fan of ricotta and the kids and husband don't like onion and stuff. I used this for the top of my dish.

  6. 6

    Lay a noodle flat. Spoon on cheese mixture. Try to do a thin layer from beginning to end. Then sprinkle parmesean cheese and then a layer of mozzarella cheese. Roll. Place them seam side down.

  7. 7

    We used the glass casserole dish to add the cheeses to the noodles and roll it up before placing them.

  8. 8

    Preheat the oven to 350. Spread sauce on the bottom of your casserole dishes or whatever pan you will be using for the oven.

  9. 9

    Same with each one.

  10. 10

    Now add sauce over the top of them. Cover as much as you can.

  11. 11

    Cover all with sauce

  12. 12

    Place tin foil on top. Put them into the oven for 40 to 45 minutes. Take it out, uncover it. Spread some mozzarella cheese on top and put them back into the oven until the cheese is nice and melted.

  13. 13
  14. 14

    I added some extra parmesean on top of mine before covering and putting it into the oven.

  15. 15

    When mine came out the second time with the extra mozzarella cheese on top. Yummy.

  16. 16

    Let it stand for about 15 minutes before serving. Serve with any sides you like. For the kids we did Mac and cheese and corn. You can use salad and bread, just bread, just salad, any veggies, there are many different things that you can have on the side or none at all.

  17. 17

    I had a salad with mine. Granted, I didn't have lettuce so I used onion, tomato, cucumber, shredded sharp cheese and bacon bits. For the dressing, I used ranch.

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taisen76
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Bel Air , Maryland
I was a stay home mother for years, and loved it. I'm always interested in trying new things and try to get my kids to try things at least once. I don't measure a lot of things. I go by taste and need to work on that .... I use a lot of different recipes, enjoy looking at ones online and trying them . I tend to change things to so you never know. I haven't been able to cook much for a bit , but I'm hoping to change that soon.
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