Three Cheese Lasagna Roll-Ups

All hail the no-fuss, easily individualized serving, three cheese lasagna roll-ups. Lasagna on a weeknight is now a legit option.

Raise your hand if you feel like making lasagna is the biggest pain in the ass thing to do. [raising hand the highest over here!]

Now, don’t get me wrong: I LOVE lasagna.

But suffering through slathering cheese and sauce across slippery layers of lasagna noodles that decided they wanted to be cantankerous and stick together like a bowl of sushi rice is just not my kind of fun.

Sometimes I suffer through the process. Case in point: our favorite spinach lasagna.

But most of the time, when we want a delicious Italian pasta dish, we opt for my one-pot creamy sausage pasta, baked ziti, or skillet lasagna instead. That is, however, until these three cheese lasagna roll-ups entered our life.

All hail the no-fuss, easily individualized serving, three cheese lasagna roll-ups!

You’ll boil and drain the noodles, lay them out on a work surface like little soldiers, spread on an almost sinful amount of cheese, roll ’em up, and drop them onto a thick layer of delicious tomato sauce.

More sauce, bake, cheese, bake, and done.

Lasagna in 45 minutes! Weeknight lasagna! This is definitely my kind of fun!

The rolled up form cuts the baking time in half as compared to regular lasagna and there’s no sloppy first piece that never wants to wiggle its way out of the pan.

The leftovers, which are easy to portion out for lunches, made me giddy thinking about all morning and were perhaps even better than the original meal after there was time for the flavors to meld overnight. I suspect assembling these roll-ups in advance would allow for the same effect and will most certainly make cooking on a busy weeknight or for company WAY less stressful.

These three cheese lasagna roll-ups WILL be making repeat appearances on our menu – maybe with spinach, kale, or sautéed mushrooms in the future – because we completely adored them.

As in, we mmm’d our way through dinner, elbowing each other on the couch with excitement, not wanting them to end, and struggling against the impulse to take seconds. Yep, that good.