I found a really easy and crowd pleasing recipe today and wanted to share it with you all.
By really easy, I don’t mean “throw a box in the microwave and voila” easy. But more like “I made this on my own and it didn’t take weird ingredients or too much time” easy.
The best part is that everyone loved it!
Ingredients:
- 1 box lasagna sheets (the real kind, not the no-bake ones)
- 1 cup browned lean ground turkey (or lean ground beef)
- 1 cup frozen chopped spinach, squeeze out excess water
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, seperated
- 1 pint lowfat or skim ricotta cheese
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion salt
- 1/2 tsp basil, oregano, parsley
- Your favorite spaghetti sauce, I make my own. It’s a family secret. One that I’m still working on. I don’t think it will ever be the same as my mom’s sauce. Ugh.
- 1 cup (approximately) mozzarella sprinkled on top.
- Optional: Salad fixings and breadsticks
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Boil water in large stock pot and cook lasagna noodles according to package directions. (Cook 1-2 noodles per person, plus a few extras just in case some tear.)
- Brown meat, along with garlic powder, onion salt, basil, oregano, and parsley.
- In medium sized bowl, mix browned meat, ricotta, spinach, and 1/4 c parmesan.
- Spray baking dish with non-stick spray and cover bottom of pan lightly with sauce.
- Drain cooked noodles in colander and lay on towel to dry.
- Spread meat filling along one noodle and roll up. Place completed roll into pan. Repeat with remaining noodles.
- Top completed rolls with sauce, then sprinkle remaining parmesan cheese and a handful of mozzarella if desired.
- Bake at 350 degrees covered with foil for approximately 30-40 minutes or until cheese is melted.
Serve with salad and bread sticks!
Weight Watchers info: Depending on the amount of mozzarella cheese you add, there are approximately 230 calories per roll, or 6 pts.
Hope you enjoy, I know we did!
| Lasagna Roll Ups |
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Serves: 6
Easy Lasagna Roll Ups
Ingredients
- 1 box lasagna sheets (the real kind, not the no-bake ones)
- 1 cup browned lean ground turkey (or lean ground beef)
- 1 cup frozen chopped spinach, squeeze out excess water
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, seperated
- 1 pint lowfat or skim ricotta cheese
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion salt
- 1/2 tsp basil, oregano, parsley
- Your favorite spaghetti sauce, I make my own. It’s a family secret. One that I’m still working on. I don’t think it will ever be the same as my mom’s sauce. Ugh.
- 1 cup (approximately) mozzarella sprinkled on top.
- Optional: Salad fixings and bread sticks
Instructions
- Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Boil water in large stock pot and cook lasagna noodles according to package directions. (Cook 1-2 noodles per person, plus a few extras just in case some tear.)
- Brown meat, along with garlic powder, onion salt, basil, oregano, and parsley.
- In medium sized bowl, mix browned meat, ricotta, spinach, and 1/4 c parmesan.
- Spray baking dish with non-stick spray and cover bottom of pan lightly with sauce.
- Drain cooked noodles in colander and lay on towel to dry.
- Spread meat filling along one noodle and roll up. Place completed roll into pan. Repeat with remaining noodles.
- Top completed rolls with sauce, then sprinkle remaining parmesan cheese and a handful of mozzarella if desired.
- Bake at 350 degrees covered with foil for approximately 30-40 minutes or until cheese is melted.
- Serve with salad and bread sticks!
It looks delicious. yumm
This looks and sounds wonderful! Thanks for sharing.
Yeah! So glad you liked the recipe! 🙂 I try to make all my recipes just like you said, ” not to many weird ingredients”, so i’m so blessed you said that ! 🙂
we discovered this same recipie and we LOVE it as well! My daycare kiddos request it, and the hubs requests it! Everyone is happy at the end of the meal when this is served!!
Thanks for sharing. We might have to have this tonight! I’m all out of ideas…
Looks yummy, but we have a wheat allergy in our family. I’ll have to see if this works the same with a rice based noodle. One dinner we do lots is made in our rice cooker. You put in uncooked rice, a veggie like carrots, zucchini, mushrooms…. what ever, and then some marinated ground beef. Add the correct amount of water for the rice you added and push the cook button. While it’s cooking I clean up and set the table. When it’s done I toss it around to combine everything and then serve. The kids LOVE it and I love how easy it is!
My son has Celiac and we make this recipe every Christmas using GF noodles. It is always good! Good luck
This looks so yummy! Great for church potluck as well! 🙂
I never thought of “rolling” it up! Sounds great. Thank you.
Hi Erica,
I was just wondering when you were going to post your February recipe calendar. I so look forward to those and I thought I saw some posts back that it would include WW recipes and I got super excited. Thank you for all your wonderful ideas!
Yum! Who doesn’t love lasagna…in a new way?! I love your definition of “easy.” I’m not looking for a boxed dinner. 🙂