Cozy comfort food made easy with Beef Lasagna Roll Ups! Skip the layering and serve up the same great cheesy flavor with a simple weeknight dinner.
Prep Time20 minutesmins
Cook Time1 hourhr
Total Time1 hourhr20 minutesmins
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: American, Italian
Keyword: lasagna, Lasagna Roll Ups
Servings: 12
Calories: 543kcal
Author: Kellie
Cost: $10
Equipment
baking dish
Ingredients
12lasagna noodlescooked per box instructions (tip: rinse after cooking and pour some oil on them to prevent sticking)
1poundground beef 80/20
1poundground Italian sausagesweet or hot
1ozolive oilabout 2 tbsp
4ozoniondiced fine (about ½ a small to medium sized onion)
2ozgreen pepperdiced fine- about ½ a pepper
.5 oz garlicminced (about 3 large cloves)
1 ½teaspoonsdried basil
1teaspoonsdried oregano
½teaspoonkosher salt
¼teaspoonblack pepper
28 ouncecan diced tomato
29ouncecan tomato sauce
6 ouncecan tomato paste
8ozricotta cheese
½teaspoondried basil
½teaspoondried oregano
½teaspoondried parsley
16ozmozzarella shredded
Instructions
In a large pot or dutch oven, brown the beef and Italian sausage over medium high heat, approximately 10 minutes. Once cooked, reserve the meat in a bowl and drain/remove any fat. Set the bowl aside.
In the same pot the meat was cooked, Add oil and saute onion until translucent, then add garlic, pepper. Add the herbs- basil, oregano, salt/pepper and mix into the vegetables. Cook for 4 minutes on medium heat to soften pepper.
Add diced tomato, tomato sauce and tomato paste. Bring to a boil then immediately reduce the heat to low to simmer sauce for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Once simmered, remove 4 cups of the sauce to use later on top of the lasagna rolls
Add cooked meat mixture to the remaining sauce. Simmer for 10 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix the ricotta with basil, oregano and parsley.
Roll up assembly:
Pour 1-2 cups of the meat sauce into the bottom of a 9x13 casserole dish
Using a large cutting board/surface, lay out the cooked lasagna noodles.
Spread 1 tbsp of the ricotta cheese mixture. Tip: Don’t spread all the way from end to end, leave a bit of space as the filling will push towards the end of the roll
Spread 2-3 tbsp of the meat sauce on top of the ricotta cheese. Tip: Don’t spread too much sauce as it will ooze out when rolled
Sprinkle 1-2 tbsp of shredded mozzarella on top of the meat sauce.
Roll up the pasta noodle. Tip: Since the sauce is meaty/chunky, you may have to sort of “lift” the roll to continue and complete the roll up.
Place the rolled lasagna into the prepared casserole / pan.
Repeat layering process (ricotta/sauce/mozzarella) on remaining noodles
Top with remaining sauce and shredded mozzarella
Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes, until the cheese on top is melted.
Optional- if desired turn broiler on hi for about 4 minutes to brown the cheese.
Notes
Lasagna Roll Ups can be assembled up to 2 days in advance.