These Skinny Vegetable Lasagna Rolls are the ultimate Italian Food comfort food, packed with fresh vegetables wrapped with noodles and topped with rich tomato sauce and cheese!
WARNING!!!
You are about to enter the flavor zone. Complete and utter flavor ecstasy might occur. Any such affects are not the authors fault as you were warned beforehand. Enter at your own risk!
Ok… I hope you entered and didn’t get scared off by the warning.
I know that lately I have been on a grilling rampage so I’d thought I’d throw a little oven action in here too. Because well, when it’s not 15008+ degrees outside here in Texas it does thunderstorm so I don’t have access to my best friend (aka the grill) which means its oven time babe!
I’m since the grill is my “best friend” I need to give her a name, what do you think about that? I use to name my cars… Bestie the Banana and Rhonda the Redhead.
What do you think? {name recommendation are accepted}
Anywho, back to the recipe.
So I saw this awesome recipe the other day for Lasagna Rolls by Gina @ Skinny Taste and have been swooning over them ever since I pinned them!
What per-say are Lasagna Rolls you ask? Well, let me tell you.
They are lasagna noodles that are rolled up with all your favorite lasagna ingredients in the middle and surrounded on all sides with rich tomato sauce and cheese then baked to perfection!
I have NEVER been a fan of lasagna. It always felt super heavy on my tummy afterwards and took FOREVER to make!
I have officially converted after making this recipe and if you were a lasagna hater like me I know you will convert too.
This Skinny Vegetable Lasagna Recipe does take some prep work but it is well worth it after you taste it. It is light, full of healthy natural flavor, SOOOOO much less cheese, and down right delicious.
When I made this I fit about 9-10 lasagna rolls in one 13×9 inch pan.
Well, I had cooked a whole box of lasagna noodles and there are 20 in a package… sooo I made the full 20 rolls and dropped off the other 10 rolls at our neighbors house.
Again… yes I know… You wish you were my neighbor! 🙂 They loved it!! She has two young boys so I sent her a text message telling her it was Vegetarian and packed with 4 different kinds of vegetables. {any momma would be happy to hear that} 🙂
Hope you enjoy this Skinny version of Lasagna as much as we do!
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These lasagna rolls are the ultimate Italian comfort food, these large noodles are packed with fresh vegetables and topped with a rich tomato sauce and gooey cheese!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- 1 cup of zucchini, grated
- 1 cup of carrot, grated
- 1/2 cup of baby portabella mushrooms, minced
- 1 cup of frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 1 1/4 cup of small curd cottage cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of dried basil
- salt & pepper
- 2 cups of marina sauce
- 20 lasagna noodles
- 3/4 cup of mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- In a large saute pan, add olive oil and mushrooms. Saute for 2-3 minutes.
- Next, to the same pan, add carrots and zucchini. Saute for another 2-3 minutes.
- Remove from heat and let rest for 5 minutes.
- In the meantime, bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook lasagna noodles till al dente {written on box}. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray so noodles do not stick. Remove noodles and place on baking sheet until cool enough to touch.
- In a small bowl, add sauteed vegetables, spinach, cottage cheese, garlic powder, dried basil, and salt & pepper to taste. MIx until combined.
- In a 13×9 inch pan add 1 cup of marinara sauce to the bottom.
- Start to assemble lasagna rolls. Place lasagna noodle on a flat surface. Add about 1-2 tablespoons of the filling mixture to the noodle and spread out even.
- Roll from one end to the other and place rolls in pan.
- Finish off with 1 cup of marinara sauce on top of finished noodles.
- Place 1 tablespoon shredded mozzarella cheese on each lasagna roll.
- Cover with foil.
- Bake for 40 minutes.
- Devour!
Notes
20 rolls will make about 2 13×9 full pans. If you do not need the full amount right away you can freeze the rolls individually in a ziplock bag for up to 3-4 weeks or freeze the fully prepared lasagna rolls with sauce for 3-4 weeks.
Recipe inspired by Skinny Taste
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 lasagna roll
- Calories: 129
- Sugar: 3 g
- Sodium: 178 mg
- Fat: 3 g
- Carbohydrates: 22 g
- Protein: 5 g
Keywords: vegetable lasagna, vegetarian lasagna, healthy lasagna
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Whole30
Excellent! I made this today using Jovial’s Brown Rice Pasta lasagna noodles. I couldn’t roll them up– had to put them out like traditional lasagna– because the rice noodles tend to break apart. The taste was wonderful! I used a bit of cultured sour cream instead of the ricotta, and almond cheese all over in place of regular dairy cheese. Very adaptable to different herbs, etc. Thank you!
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Awesome! So glad to hear it Laurel!
Love this version of lasagna, very simple lite delicious recipe, better than layers of traditional lasagna that can be heavy. The only changes I made was adding mild Italian sausage and left out the zucchini & carrot since I didn’t have those on hand. My family really enjoyed this and will be making it again. Thank you Krista for sharing 🙂
Laura M.
Green Bay WI
Love the change up Laura, thats what is so nice about this recipe, it can easily be adapted. Glad you and the fam enjoyed it so much!
And, go pack go! (sorry I’m a wisconsin girl born and raised hehe)
I made these last night. They were pretty easy to put together (just time-intensive) and the flavors were excellent. Really fresh and light, but savory and delicious. The thing is, I didn’t have enough filling — and I doubled it so I could have extra to freeze and make another night. I think they could have used more sauce, too. Did I do something wrong? Maybe cooked the veggies down too much? I will definitely make these again, but I’ll probably do a little tweaking.
Hmmm…. You might have stuffed them too much. If you doubled the filling recipe you should have had more than enough, especially with 1-2 tablespoons worth per lasagna noodle.
I like the sauce alot too but because I was doing a “skinny” version I didn’t add as much as I normally would. But you want to add more totally do it. Thats what is great about this recipe, you can customize it to how you like it. 🙂
Glad you enjoyed the flavors Lindsay!
This sounds delicious. Suggestions on what else can be used instead of cottage cheese? I’m not a fan of cottage cheese :(.
Hey Stefanie, it so is. An easy substitute would be ricotta cheese, if you don’t like that let me know and we’ll figure something out. 🙂