Today I made two different lasagnas for my husband's birthday party tomorrow and I discovered that I had left over filling as well as four fully cooked and still intact noodles. "What to do with all this?", I pondered for only the briefest of moments before deciding that I would try my hand at lasagna rolls. I can NOT believe how amazingly well they turned out! In fact my affection for these little packages of incredible is so great that I am absolutely going to make them again.
Here's how it started, lay out fully cooked noodles on your work surface and, using a soup spoon, add just enough sauce to cover the noodles to about an inch from one end. I used both alfredo and marinara sauces because that's what I had left over. Don't forget to put a little sauce in the bottom of your pan to keep your noodles from sticking while they bake.
Spread your left over lasagna cheese filling across the noodles in the exact same pattern (I used my fingers for this), then roll up the noodles working toward the area that you left sauceless. Lay your beautiful cheese filled lasagna rolls into the bottom of your pan with the seam down to help hold everything together. There WILL be leakage of the filling as it bakes but that can't really be helped, you are turning cheese into molten delicious!
Spread about another spoonful of sauce over each roll and stand around staring at it in complete awe of your achievement.
Ok, staring time is over. Sprinkle shredded cheese over the sauce, cover with foil, and shove into a 350 degree oven for about 40 minutes or until everything is bubbly and melted. Remove the foil and bake another 5-10 minutes or until you can't stand to leave them in the oven a second longer because you know the cheesy goodness is calling your name.
This is what your rolls should look like unless you make a bigger pan of them and you cram everyone in super close.
The plate of love can now be assembled. I put one of each roll on the plates and it was so pretty! The only thing we were missing for this to be a complete meal was a giant piece of toasted garlic bread to sop up the rest of the sauce in the bottom of the plate.
I sincerely hope that you try this one out and love it as much as I do!
