How to make the World’s Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups Recipe

I have been wanting to share these Lasagna Roll Ups for quite a while, and can’t wait to share step-by-step how to make this easy recipe. They are the perfect make-ahead dinner idea for freezer meals and meal plans.

If you are looking to make an out of this world twist on lasagna, you have to keep reading. This recipe is so delicious that I can never make enough of these lasagna roll ups. Everyone, including the kids, loves to eat them right up. Make dinner even better and serve them with this Hershey Chocolate Bundt Cake recipe.

If you love a good kid-friendly, make-ahead lasagna recipe, then you are going to love these.

Just another reason why they are named the World’s Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups. Made with lean ground beef, Italian sausage, and my favorite – ricotta cheese. Keep reading!

Lasagna roll ups on a pan in the background and on a white plate.

World’s Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups

 

World’s Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups

Here’s the truth. I love to make this lasagna roll ups recipe, and we make it at our house all the time. It is really one of my families favorite recipes. But it is a little more work than what I usually like to do during the week.

On the other hand, it’s also amazing and totally worth it. If you don’t have the extra time during the week, make them ahead of time. They are perfect for freezing!

Here are a few suggestions to keep in mind when making this recipe:

  1. Make it on a weekend when you have extra time.
  2. Double (or triple) this recipe and freeze the leftovers for later.
  3. For a faster version, sub your favorite store-bought sauce for the homemade version.
Lasagna Roll Ups on a white plate.

Easy Lasagna Rolls Recipe

Easy Lasagna Rolls Recipe

If you decided to go full throttle with this homemade lasagna rolls recipe, you’re going to love it. To get this party started, you will need a little extra time and a few ingredients.

You are seriously going to enjoy these, and I can’t wait to hear what you think of these after you make them!

World's Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups Recipe

How do you make the World’s Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups Recipe?

You will need a few ingredients on hand. I have the meat sauce and noodles and cheese separated out for easy shopping and organization.

Remember that to make a faster version, substitute your favorite store-bought sauce for the meat sauce recipe.

Meat Sauce Ingredients:

  • Italian Sausage
  • Lean Ground Beef (I like 93/7)
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • chopped onion
  • 2 cloves garlic (minced)
  • water
  • 15 oz can diced tomatoes (I use flavored fire roasted with basil)
  • 16 oz can tomato sauce
  • 6 oz can tomato paste
  • 1 1/2 tsp dried basil
  • 1 tsp Italian seasoning
  • 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
  • 4 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley

Noodle and Cheese Ingredients:

  • Uncooked Lasagna noodles
  • 16 oz ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • sliced mozzarella cheese
  • 3/4 cup grated parmesan reggiano

How do you make Lasagna Roll Ups?

Follow along with these easy step-by-step instructions on how to make lasagna roll ups.

1. Start browning your meat on medium heat in a large saucepan.

Browning meat in a saucepan

Step 1: Brown the meat

2. Cook the onion and garlic on medium heat in a Tbsp of olive oil. Then add the Italian seasoning and basil. Simmer for about 6-8 minutes, or until onion is translucent.

simmering onion, garlic, and seasonings in a saucepan.

Step 2: saute onion, garlic, and seasonings

3. Once the vegetables are cooked, add them to the meat mixture. Then add the tomatoes, tomato sauce, water, black pepper, and 2 tbsp of fresh parsley. Allow to simmer uncovered for 1 hour.

simmering meat sauce

Step 3: Simmer meat sauce, vegetables, and seasonings for 1 hour

4. Bring a large pot of water to boil and cook the lasagna noodles for 8-10 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water. Start shredding the parmesan reggiano.

Shredded cheese on a white plate.

Step 4: Shred the cheese for the lasagna roll ups

5. In a small mixing bowl, combine remaining parsley, ricotta cheese, egg, 1/2 tsp salt. Mix well.

combined cheese and parsley mixture for lasagna roll ups.

Step 5: Combine remaining parsley, ricotta cheese, egg, 1/2 tsp salt.

6. Heat the oven to 375. Pour 3/4 of the meat sauce into the bottom of a 9 x 13 glass baking dish.

9 x 13 baking dish with meat sauce on bottom

Step 6: Cover a 9 x 13 baking dish with 3/4 of the meat sauce

How do you make easy lasagna rolls?

7. To make the lasagna rolls you will need to place each noodle onto a flat surface.

Lasagna noodles on a flat surface

Step 7: Lay noodles on a flat surface

8. Cover with cheese mixture and then sprinkle a little parmesan reggiano cheese on top.

Lasagna noodles covered with cheese mixture.

Step 8: Cover lasagna noodles with cheese mixture

9. Now it’s time to start making the perfect lasagna roll ups. Start rolling the noodles.

Lasagna Roll Ups being rolled together.

Step 9: Start rolling the noodles into tight lasagna rolls

10. Now it’s time to add them to the meat sauce.

Lasagna roll sitting on top of meat sauce

Step 10: Start adding the lasagna rolls to the meat sauce

11. Finish rolling all of the lasagna roll ups and place them into the dish with the meat mixture.

Lasagna Rolls placed onto meat mixture.

Step 11: Fill the 9 x 13 dish with remaining lasagna rolls

12. Once you have all of the lasagna roll ups lined into the dish, cover each with a little more of the meat mixture.

Lasagna Rolls covered in meat sauce.

Step 12: Cover the lasagna rolls with the meat mixture

13. Top each roll with a half a slice of mozzarella cheese and then cover the dish with foil.

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Lasagna rolls covered with cheese

Step 13: Cover the lasagna rolls with mozzarella cheese

How long do you cook Lasagna Roll Ups?

You’ve done all of the major work. Now it’s time to sit back and relax and bake these lasagna rolls to perfection.

14. Cover the dish with foil, and then place the lasagna rolls in the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes.

15. Remove foil and bake for an additional 10 minutes uncovered. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.

Fully cooked lasagna rolls in a baking dish.

These Lasagna Rolls are perfection, and the whole family will enjoy them.

This recipe makes 18 roll ups (2 sets of 9 in a 9 x 13 dish) with a little extra left over to make a few more if desired. They are just delicious, and a perfect dish to share at a party or for dinner.

Lasagna roll on a white plate.

World’s Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups Recipe

These lasagna roll ups are seriously the best ever. They might take as long to make as a regular lasagna, but trust me – it’s time well spent!

TRUST me.

Lasagna Rolls on a white dish for serving.

World’s Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups Recipe, a perfect make-ahead dinner idea.

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Don’t forget to make this easy cheesy garlic bread with your lasagna rolls.

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World's Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups Recipe

Jen @PinkWhen
Seriously - This is the World's Greatest Lasagna Roll Ups recipe. You won't want another after you try this one.
4.16 from 20 votes
Prep Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes
Course dinner
Cuisine Italian
Servings 18
Calories 151 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pound Italian Sausage
  • 1 pound Lean Ground Beef I like 93/7
  • 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1/2 cup chopped onion
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 15 oz can diced tomatoes (I use flavored fire roasted with basil)
  • 1 16 oz can tomato sauce
  • 1 6 oz can tomato paste
  • 1 1/2 tsp dried basil
  • 1 tsp Italian seasoning
  • 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
  • 4 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley
  • Uncooked Lasagna noodles
  • 16 oz ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • sliced mozzarella cheese
  • 3/4 cup grated parmesan reggiano

Instructions
 

  • In a large sauce pan on medium heat start browning your meat.
  • On medium heat in a separate pan with the Tbsp of olive oil start to cook the onion, garlic, Italian seasoning, and basil for about 6-8 minutes, or until onion is translucent. Add this to the meat mixture, along with the tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, water, black pepper, and 2 tbsp of the fresh parsley. Allow to simmer uncovered for 1 hour.
  • Bring a large pot of water to boil and begin cook the lasagna noodles for 8-10 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water.
  • In a small mixing bowl combine remaining parsley, ricotta cheese, egg, 1/2 tsp salt and mix well.
  • Heat oven to 375. Pour some meat sauce into the bottom of a 9 x 13 glass baking dish.
  • To make the roll ups place a noodle onto a flat surface and spread with the cheese mixture. Then sprinkle a little parmesan reggiano cheese on the cheese mixture.
  • Then roll them up!
  • Once you have all of the lasagna roll ups lined into the dish, cover each with a little more of the meat mixture. Top with a slice of mozzarella cheese and then cover the dish with foil. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Remove foil and bake for an additional 10 minutes uncovered. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 151kcalCarbohydrates: 1gProtein: 10gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 46mgSodium: 337mgPotassium: 169mgVitamin A: 115IUVitamin C: 2.1mgCalcium: 63mgIron: 1.1mg

*Nutritional information is a calculated guesstimate. Please note that this can change with different brands and modifications you may make to the recipe. For the most accurate information, use a nutritional calculator with the exact brands and measurements you're using with each recipe.

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22 Comments

  1. I can’t tell you how badly I want these! The title is really selling them, but the photos and words are helping a lot too!

  2. Michael Schlangen says:

    5 stars
    Awesome recipe.

    1. So glad you like it! It’s honestly amazing.

  3. Your photo shows something green and possibly some other items. What else did you sprinkle on top after placing the cheese over the rolls? They’re more work than how I make mine but they look so delicious I’m going to have to make these!!! I notice many of your recipes are made for large quantities. I think I may have to cut them in half. Thank you for providing good recipes!

    1. I sprinkled a little dried parsley on top before I took the picture, so that’s the green. There is nothing else on top other than the meat sauce and cheese, which are the last steps before you place them into the oven. They are a lot of work, and you could easily get away with cutting the recipe in half and still having plenty. OR Since they are so much work, you can get foil pans and place the second batch in a foil pan and place those in the freezer before baking. Then you have another meal for later that you don’t have to spend a couple of hours on. I would reheat them covered in foil on 350 for about 60 minutes, and then 10 minutes without the foil. Hope you enjoy! We had them again this past weekend. 🙂

  4. Do you have any issues of the noodles drying out?

    1. Not at all! I cover (the first half of baking) with foil, and then remove the foil at the end for a few minutes. I have never had an issue any time I have made these. 🙂

  5. Molly Lindley says:

    Thanks for the great recipe! I added an extra can of crushed tomatoes and turned the oven up to 425 for the final 10 mins to brown the cheese a little. Found this on Pinterest.

  6. Molly Lindley says:

    5 stars
    Forgot to rate it!

  7. Thanks for the recipe! This is a clever twist on traditional lasagna – at first I thought it was going to be finger food – like pizza roll-ups, and I had no idea how you were going to pull that off!

    1. Thanks Doug! They are truly delicious, one of my favorite things to make.

  8. I’m preparing to make this wonderful dish of yours. I have one question…it calls for the diced tomatoes and a 16oz tomato sauce and an 8oz tomato sauce, correct?
    The 8 oz one is not tomato paste? I just want to be clear that there are 24oz of tomato sauce?

    1. Yes! That is correct 🙂

  9. Mine just went in the oven and we are all excited to taste them. Only thing I found that was different is that we only managed to make 9 from the measurements. I had no extra sauce or cheese…

    1. WOW~! I can’t believe you only made nine. I bet they were really big. I hope you love them as much as we do!

  10. Did you cook the noodles first? I thought lasagna noodles are dry and brittle when uncooked

    1. I did cook the noodle first. They are easier to roll when they are cooked 🙂

  11. 5 stars
    Question: Has anyone made the Roll-Ups and put them in the freezer to back later? Looking for freezer meal, I think this could work.

    thank you

  12. ElizabethT. says:

    Thank you for the details! I made this recipe once again for my potluck and it came out great. I made exactly 18 rolls with it. There were a few minor differences ( skipped the sausage, used fat free ricotta) and still came out tasty. It’s worth the time ^_^

  13. Linda Batson says:

    I can’t print this recipe….. I hit the print button and it just gives me a blank page.

    1. Have you checked your printer settings? I was able to print the recipe without issue. Hope that helps!