Spinach & Cheese Lasagna Roll Ups
Here’s a tasty Lasagna roll ups recipe filled with fresh Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Basil and baked in a homemade, quick Marinara sauce and a white Sauce.
Servings
3People
Cook Time
20Minutes
Servings
3People
Cook Time
20Minutes
Ingredients
For the filling
For the Marinara Sauce
For the white sauce
For the Lasagna bake
Instructions
  1. Boil the Lasagna noodles as instructed on the pack or to al dente. Drain the noodles and align them on a wax paper.
  2. For the filling, heat a pan with the olive oil, add onions , basil leaves and chopped garlic, sauté for a minute then add the Spinach and cook till the water dries from the Spinach. Add the Spinach to the cottage cheese in a bowl with salt and pepper and mix.
  3. To make the simple Marinara sauce heat the olive oil in a saucepan on medium flame, add onions and crushed garlic, saute till transparent, add the puréed tomato and the seasonings and let it cook for 15 minutes or till the water from the tomato dries up making it thick.
  4. When the Marinara sauce is cooking start making the white sauce in another saucepan. Sauté the butter and flour on medium heat till light brown, slowly add the milk whisking simultaneously making sure no lumps remain,as the sauce thickens add the salt, peeper and nutmeg and switch off the flame.
  5. For assembling, divide the cheese mix into 6 equal parts.Spread 1 tsp Marinara sauce on a lasagna noodle and on top of it spread 1 part of cheese mix on one Lasagna noodle from end to the other, sprinkle some grated mozzarella, place tomato slices as shown in the pic and finally sprinkle some torn basil.
  6. Roll out the Lasagna noodle snuggly to the other end. Repeat the same process for the other Lasagna noodles.
  7. Spread 1/4 cup Marinara sauce in the bottom of a rectangular dish, align the lasagne roll ups side by side on it with the seam side down.
  8. Top each roll with 2 tsps of Marinara sauce making sure covering the edge of the pasta so that they don’t dry out.
  9. Top the rolls with White sauce and finally sprinkle with the remaining Mozarella and bake in a preheated oven at 180 deg C for 20-25 minutes or till the top turns golden brown.
  10. Remove from oven, plate the roll ups, garnish with torn basil leaves.