My Lasagna Roll Ups recipe takes the best of classic Lasagna but makes it easier to serve, faster to bake, and ready to serve right away – no resting time required! They are make-ahead, freezer-friendly, and reheat well for an easy weeknight meal or meal prep idea.
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“I was so surprised how easy this recipe was to make and how fast it was to prepare. My husband asked me to make sure I put this recipe in our rotation of easy and quick meals to make. It was so satisfying to see the end result be so gratifying. Thanks Natasha – huge fan!!!” – Brandi ★★★★★
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We love comforting pasta dishes like Chicken Tetrazzini, traditional Spaghetti and Meatballs, and Baked Mac and Cheese; in fact, these are among the most requested meals in our family. Try this Lasagna Roll-Ups recipe and you will make it over and over. Double the recipe and stash one tray in the freezer for an easy and delicious meal that’s ready to cook from frozen!
Best Lasagna Roll-Ups Recipe
These Lasagna Roll-ups have all the elements of Classic Lasagna – beefy, saucy, cheesy, and definitely satisfy the craving for lasagna, but they are way easier to serve. No more messy lasagna squares sliding apart as you struggle to remove them from the pan.
This easy dish keeps well in the fridge or freezer for the perfect meal-prep or make-ahead dinner, so be sure to double the recipe for two nights of lasagna goodness. P.S. If you make my Spaghetti Sauce, you can use leftovers for these Lasagna Roll Ups.
Ingredients for Lasagna Roll Ups
The ingredients for lasagna roll ups are nearly the same as classic lasagna, so you know it will taste good.
- Lasagna noodles – Go with plain lasagna noodles, not the no-boil variety, so they hold their shape once cooked. You can even make your own pasta.
- Ground Beef – using 1lb of 80/20 or 85/15 works best for flavor without being too greasy, but you can swap for Italian sausage or use ground turkey or ground chicken for a leaner lasagna.
- Marinara – make this quick homemade Marinara Sauce or use a jar of store-bought
- Aromatics – diced onion, garlic cloves, salt, pepper, and oregano.
- Cheeses – we make a 3-cheese sauce with ricotta cheese (use whole milk so it’s not too liquidy), Parmesan cheese, and shredded mozzarella.
- Egg – this binds the filling together, but you can omit it if needed.
- Fresh Parsley – chopped, or 2 Tablespoons dried parsley.
How to Make Lasagna Rolls
This lasagna roll ups recipe results in 12 perfectly portioned servings of lasagna, so it’s brilliant for parties!
- Cook the noodles in salted water until just al dente (don’t overcook), as they will continue cooking in the oven. I always make a few extra noodles in case they break when cooking. Drain, and cover in cool water.
- Ragu Meat sauce – brown the beef, and then add the onion, garlic, salt, pepper, and oregano. Then stir in the marinara. Spread 1/2 cup in a 9×13 casserole.
- Cheese sauce – combine the ricotta, egg, 1/4 cup of Parmesan, 1/2 cup of mozzarella, and 1/4 cup of fresh chopped parsley.
- Roll – Lay out the cooked noodles, and then spread cheese sauce and meat sauce on each. Roll up and place seam-side down in the dish.
- Top the rolls with the remaining meat sauce and mozzarella.
- Bake – Cover and bake at 375°F for 40 minutes. Uncover to broil for 2 minutes, garnish with parsley, and serve.
How to know when Lasagna Rolls Ups are Done?
When the lasagna roll ups are finished baking, they will be bubbling, and the cheese will be melty on top from the short broil.
What to Serve with Lasagna Roll Ups
My lasagna roll ups recipe is filling and satisfying with plenty of protein, flavor, and melty cheese, so I love to serve this with a simple Italian salad and crusty bread to sop up every drop of the Ragu sauce, and don’t forget dessert! Here are a few of our favorite recipes:
- Caesar Salad
- Panzanella Salad
- Tomato Burrata Salad
- Easy Garlic Bread
- Focaccia Bread
- Panna Cotta
- Tiramisu
Make-Ahead and Storage
My lasagna roll-ups recipe is perfect for making ahead to share with others or to have a meal ready anytime.
- Make-ahead: Cool the baked casserole to room temperature, cover and store, or you can cover tightly with foil and store before baking in the refrigerator overnight or in the freezer for 3 months. Bake from the fridge for 50 minutes or from the freezer for an hour.
- To Refrigerate: Cover cooled leftover rolls and store in the fridge for up to 4 days.
- Freezing: Cover the cooled leftover roll ups or transfer to an airtight container. Freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw cooked leftovers in the freezer overnight.
- To Reheat: Cut a portion to heat in the microwave until warm, or reheat covered in the oven until heated through.
My super-easy Lasagna Roll Ups recipe has all the melty, savory, satisfying flavors of classic lasagna in a single portion size. You’ll love how easy it is to serve, but it also reheats well for a perfect make-ahead dinner. You’ll love these leftovers!
Lasagna Roll Ups
Ingredients
- 12 lasagna noodles, *cooked to package instructions
- 16 oz ground beef, 85% lean
- 24 oz marinara sauce
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tsp sea salt, or to taste for red sauce
- 1/2 tsp black pepper, or to taste
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 15 oz ricotta cheese
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese, shredded
- 3 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded, divided
- 1/4 cup parsley, chopped, plus more to garnish
Instructions
- Cook the noodles – Preheat oven to 375˚F. Cook noodles in a large pot of salted water according to package instructions for al dente (don't overcook), then drain and fill pot with cold water to stop the cooking process and keep noodles from sticking together.
- Meat Sauce – In a deep pan or Dutch oven, over medium-high heat, cook ground beef until no longer pink, breaking up with a spatula (2 min). Add onion and cook until softened (3 minutes). Add garlic, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, and 1/2 tsp oregano and sauté another minute. Add marinara, bring to a simmer, and turn off the heat. Spread 1/2 cup meat sauce over the bottom of a casserole dish.
- Cheese Sauce – In a large bowl, stir together: ricotta, 1 egg, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, 1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, and 1/4 cup parsley.
- Roll – To contain messiness, arrange noodles over a large baking sheet in a single layer. Spread 1/4 cup (1 scant ice cream scoop) of cheese mixture over the top of each noodle. Add a heaping Tbsp of meat sauce in a strip down the center of the noodle. Roll noodles up and arrange in the prepared casserole dish.
- Top – Spread remaining meat sauce over the tops of roll-ups and sprinkle on the remaining 1 1/2 cups of mozzarella cheese. Cover with foil, making sure foil isn't touching cheese (if your pan is on the shallow side, you can put toothpicks into rolls to keep the foil away from cheese.
- Bake covered at 375˚F for 40 minutes. Remove foil and broil another 2-3 minutes or until cheese is lightly golden. Garnish with parsley to serve.
Notes
- Make ahead – either store baked and cooled casserole covered in the fridge or the freezer for up to 3 months; or store covered before baking overnight in the fridge or for up to 3 months in the freezer. Bake uncooked rollups directly from the refrigerator or from the freezer.
- Refrigerator – store cooked and cooled roll ups in the fridge, covered with foil, for up to 4 days.
- Freezer – Cool leftovers and store in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge overnight.
- Reheat – take out a roll or two and reheat in the microwave until warm, or put casserole dish back in the oven at 350°F until warmed through.
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Hi,
Wondering how to reheat if I freeze it? Thank you.
To reheat it you can do it in the oven covering it with foil again. Or use the microwave in a microwave-safe dish. Time will depend on how much you have.
My husband is Italian and we love lasagna. However since there are only 3 in our house now, there’s always more than we can eat! This recipe cooks up delicious, and is very easily broken down to freeze those extra portions. Love the innovative way to cook this delicious dish! Thanks Natasha! My family loves your recipes and I love your videos! Keep ’em coming!
Love your feedback and comments! Thank you so much for your appreciation and I hope you enjoy all the other recipes too!
Love this recipe
Great to hear and thanks for your great feedback!
This looks so good! I have a feeling I would love the taste so I’ll go ahead and rate it even though I haven’t made it yet! Loving your recipes and video tutorials! I usually make spaghetti with a 1/2 Italian sausage 1/2 ground turkey combo but the beef looks really good and hearty in this! Thank you!
I hope you try and love this recipe soon! Thank you for that wonderful feedback Kristina!
Hi Natasha, found you on facebook and Im loving everything about your style and food. Can you tell me the name of Casserole dish and add a link to where I can purchase it, I gotta have it 🙂
Hello Joanne. Are you referring to this baking dish?
The Amazon dish has Staub on the handles, I can’t see that on the video-are they different dishes because they appear to be??? TIA!
Hi Sue, the dish I used for the lasagna roll-ups is from Fred Meyer and it doesn’t exist online as far as I can tell.
Has anyone substituted shredded chicken for the beef? I was looking for another chicken dish and thought this sounded like a good option.
Hi Tract. I haven’t tested that to advise. If you experiment, let me know how you liked the recipe
I guess you can add green peppers and mushrooms to ground beef?
Hi Melissa, I haven’t tested that but it should work! I’d love to know how you like it trying that.
I tripled this for a his+her baby shower. Made two with beef and made the other vegetarian with peppers, mushrooms, zucchini, and onions. Instead of cheese sauce I just sprinked shredded mozza over the marinara before rolling up. Wonderfully received!
This recipe turned out great! Easy and fast and love that we can just dig in (and not wait it around to settle!) My 4 year old helped me rolled most of them, so fun! Can you share/link where you got your bakeware? I love it how it had handles and how the extra depth. Thank you, love your videos.
Thank you for your wonderful feedback regarding this recipe, Elisabeth. You can see the list of products that I used for this recipe in the description field of this youtube video.
Easy recipe to make….great presentation on the plate…..Family Favourite. Thanks you for sharing this dish.
You’re welcome, Lorraine! I’m so glad you liked that!
Hi. Can’t wait to try it. But I will need to make 2 pans—one for meat eaters and one for the vegetarians in my family. Would love to maybe add Spinach or something else? Any suggestions besides just the cheese filling?? (New to the vegetarian world since my daughter has changed her diet)
Hi Charity, I haven’t tested that but I think it could work. One of our readers made a comment making this vegetarian & loving it. If you experiment, let me know how you liked the recipe.
I’ve had success adding cooked lentils plus onions, peppers to tomato sauce when serving vegetarian spaghetti. I want to try this with the lasagna roll-ups; I think will work well.
I love love this recipe. It is very simple and amazingly good. My boyfriend loved it and can’t wait for me to make it again. Thank you Natasha for all of your amazing cooking.
You’re welcome Mayra! I’m so happy to hear that!
I am not a cook but trying to cook. Any suggestion on what to do with the remaining cheese mixture?
Thank you for this recipe. I substituted the ground beef for Gardein Beef-less Ground and it came out perfect. Thanks again!
Great substitute! Thanks for the tip and for sharing your experience with us here.
Hi Natasha, I live in Belize and as such it is really hard to find ricotta cheese. Is there any other cheese I can substitute it with?
Hi Angie. You can try cottage cheese too. If you experiment, let me know if you liked the recipe.
I make lasagna all the time with cottage cheese, as I don’t really like ricotta. My family and I like it. I make a homemade sauce, but never have rolled it up. I am going to try it this way next time. 🙂
oh no! Really? Well that’s a shame. Are you certain your sauce isn’t an improvised sauce from a jar as well?
Tried your Lasagna Roll Up Recipe for dinner tonight. My husband and I loved it!! I immensely enjoy your recipe videos!! You are so much fun and an excellent cook!! Thank you Natasha!!
That’s just awesome!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful review, DeLaina!
Made this recipe first time today, friend coming for dinner, can’t wait to eat!
I hope you love it, Elaine!
Made these last night for dinner….. DELICIOUS. My family loved them, and I have some picky eaters. Easy to make and do good. Made a half recipes of 6 rolls. Perfect for our family of 4. Thanks for the recipe. It is going into the rotation.
Sounds like you found a new favorite, Stacie! Thank you for stopping by!
Love your videos
Thank you Linda!
Could you make this with zucchini sliced really thin and then rolled instead of traditional noodles? Making it keto friendly?
Hi Jeanne, I haven’t tested that with this recipe specifically but I bet that could work. If you experiment, let me know how you liked the recipe
Can you make this in the crock pot?
Hi Sarah, I haven’t tested that with Lasagna Rolls Ups but I think it could work. If you experiment, let me know how you liked the recipe. We do have this slow cooker option here you may like.
Hi Natasha, I tried this recipe last night and we loved it. One question though, it came out a little dry and I followed your recipe. Where did I go wrong?
Hi Eva, I haven’t had that experience. Do you feel it was dry but the ricotta mixture or not enough sauce?
Hi Natasha,
Looking to change my cooking pots and I love the blue set you have or the red one. Can you please put the link where I can purchase them.
Thank you
Hi Sandra, you can see the kitchen tools that I use here in my Amazon affiliate shop
I fixed this lasagna tonight and everyone thought it was great. Why did I never think of rolling the noodles up. So much easier to get out of the pan.
My next dish is the mini strawberry cheese cakes. Looks yummy.
Thanks Natasha for these delicious recipes!
Isn’t it genius! We love how easy it is to serve! I hope you love the strawberry cheesecakes, Gloria!
Ok. Where do I start? I made this recipe, except I had the oven ready lasagna so I just did not roll them up. But if I can say one thing it is this: at the end of your video, when you do the tasting test…you are not giving the right reaction. You should be jumping up and down for the perfect dish!! This lasagne is a EXTRA AMAZING! Soooo easy to make, And so tasty!! Thank you for this perfect recipe!!
I’ll have to try the jumping up and down next time 😉 Thank you for that amazing review, Mona! I’m so glad you enjoyed this recipe.