Lasagna Rollata Al Forno

This recipe is a Olive Garden copycat recipe that I modified and made a little different.

I made the roll ups and froze them in the freezer.  Then when I came home from work I made the sauce and took the frozen rolls out of the freezer and put it together and baked it.  It was so easy!!

Lasagna Rollata Al Forno

Marinara Sauce

2 cups marinara sauce

2 cups alfredo sauce

1/2 cup ricotta cheese

Filling

1 lbs jimmy dean italian sausage drained and cooked, cool

1 egg

15 ounces whole milk ricotta cheese

1 (8 ounce) mozzarella cheese, grated

1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated

1/2 cup asiago cheese, grated

1/2 cup romano cheese, grated

1 tablespoon italian seasoning, blend

salt and pepper, to taste

Noodles

1 lb lasagna noodle

1/2 cup Italian breadcrumbs

1 cup Italian blend cheese

Directions:

Blend first two marinara ingredients together in a large saucepan. Add remaining ingredients and heat on medium, stirring frequently. The cheese will melt and the sauce will become creamy. Keep warm.

 Beat egg into a large mixing bowl and add all remaining ingredients, blending well. Keep refrigerated until you are ready to use.

Cook lasagna exactly according to package directions. Drain and rinse immediately with cold water so they are cool enough to handle.

When ready to make, spread about 1/4 cup of marinara sauce in a large 9×13 baking dish. Based upon the number of noodles in your 1 lb of noodles, divide the filling accordingly. Lay one lasagna noodle in baking dish and spread with filling along noodle. Loosely roll the noodle up, jelly-roll style. Decide if this looks about right to you. If so, keep rolling the rest of the noodles. Otherwise use more filling per noodle and discard the extra noodles.

Continue with each lasagna noodle until all noodles are rolled and cut each roll in half and arranged in baking dish. Cover each roll with remaining sauce, the remaining mozzarella cheese and top with Italian breadcrumbs.

Bake in preheated oven at 350 degree for about 35 minutes.

I made my lasagna rolls and then i froze them in the freezer on a cookie sheet.  Once they were frozen, I added them to a ziplock bag.  When i was ready to cook them, i assembled the dish and I baked it longer, for 50 mins. 

I also ended up with lots of left over noodles, so I blended up the filling again and made another batch. 

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