We are making a vegan ricotta and spinach mixture that you will love inside of your lasagna noodles. All rolled up, topped with a delicious homemade spaghetti sauce and vegan cheese for all the best parts of lasagna in an easy roll-up way!
Tips for Making the Lasagna Noodles
Starting to feel a little bit like Forrest Gump around here, but instead of shrimp, we got lasagna. We got regular lasagna, and we got skillet lasagna, and we got lasagna soup, and now we're making lasagna roll-ups.
What's going to be next Andrew making lasagna cookies? That's taking a little too far let's just get into the recipe. Lasagna is wonderful.
We all know that. It's warm and filling and comforting but it takes forever to make and then you have to let it set up once it's done taking forever to make and then you try to cut it and it slips all over the place and for the life of me I cannot remember the order of the steps that it goes in.
Like is it sauce, noodles, cheese, or sauce, cheese, noodles, cheese, sauce? I don't know. These spinach and ricotta vegan lasagna roll-ups are so much easier to not only make but also eat.
So let's show you how to do it. So you can use a jarred spaghetti sauce but we just made a fresh batch of our homemade spaghetti sauce we did make a meat sauce this time it is so good we have a full video of it already but it is amazing and we make it all the time so we wanted to make that for this recipe.
We all know that. It's warm and filling and comforting but it takes forever to make and then you have to let it set up once it's done taking forever to make and then you try to cut it and it slips all over the place and for the life of me I cannot remember the order of the steps that it goes in.
Like is it sauce, noodles, cheese, or sauce, cheese, noodles, cheese, sauce? I don't know. These spinach and ricotta vegan lasagna roll-ups are so much easier to not only make but also eat.
So let's show you how to do it. So you can use a jarred spaghetti sauce but we just made a fresh batch of our homemade spaghetti sauce we did make a meat sauce this time it is so good we have a full video of it already but it is amazing and we make it all the time so we wanted to make that for this recipe.
So we're gonna start by boiling some water for our lasagna noodles. Now you will need 12 lasagna noodles. I do like to add about three or four extra ones in case any of them break while you're rolling them up.
Plus our girls will eat whatever is left over so it doesn't really matter for waste purposes for us.
Plus our girls will eat whatever is left over so it doesn't really matter for waste purposes for us.
So while that is boiling we are going to move it over here, add another skillet to our burner and then we are going to add some oil and so we can start cooking our spinach. You can also use frozen spinach.
You want to make sure it thaws first before you start using it. um I like to use fresh spinach ,one because i chop it first and then it doesn't have it's not like long stringy pieces inside of our lasagna.
I also find that our kids are more willing to eat it if there's not long stringy pieces of spinach inside of our lasagna as well.
All right so into a bowl we are going to add our ricotta, vegan ricotta, and then some vegan cream cheese as well. Now we're just going to stir these two things together until they are well combined We understand that vegan cream cheese is not a traditional lasagna ingredient. However vegan ricotta is very expensive and so this cuts down the cost a little bit.
You can use all vegan ricotta if you want or you can make your own if you would like to do that as well and use all vegan ricotta but we do this it tastes good it's still super creamy and it helps the cost.
So into our bowl we are going to add in some garlic, our drained spinach. Don't worry it looked like a lot in the beginning, but now it looks like my kids mini brand toy.
All right so once your noodles are cooked and drained and cooled a little bit so you can touch them. You are going to lay them flat on a baking sheet. We have the largest baking sheet that we have here.
You want to make sure it thaws first before you start using it. um I like to use fresh spinach ,one because i chop it first and then it doesn't have it's not like long stringy pieces inside of our lasagna.
I also find that our kids are more willing to eat it if there's not long stringy pieces of spinach inside of our lasagna as well.
No matter if you are using the fresh that we're doing here or frozen you want to make sure that after it has wilted you get as much liquid as possible out so that you don't have watery lasagna rolls.
How to Make Vegan Cheese Filling for Lasagna Roll-Ups
All right so into a bowl we are going to add our ricotta, vegan ricotta, and then some vegan cream cheese as well. Now we're just going to stir these two things together until they are well combined We understand that vegan cream cheese is not a traditional lasagna ingredient. However vegan ricotta is very expensive and so this cuts down the cost a little bit.
You can use all vegan ricotta if you want or you can make your own if you would like to do that as well and use all vegan ricotta but we do this it tastes good it's still super creamy and it helps the cost.
So into our bowl we are going to add in some garlic, our drained spinach. Don't worry it looked like a lot in the beginning, but now it looks like my kids mini brand toy.
Vegan mozzarella, vegan parm, and our seasonings, which are salt, pepper, nutmeg, and Italian seasoning. And then you're just going to stir this together really well until everything has been combined throughout. You don't have any big chunks of one ingredient anywhere special.
How to Roll-Up Lasagna
All right so once your noodles are cooked and drained and cooled a little bit so you can touch them. You are going to lay them flat on a baking sheet. We have the largest baking sheet that we have here.
You want to get them flat as soon as possible to prevent them from breaking if you leave them together just drained inside of a pot what's going to happen is they're all going to stick together and then they are more likely to break once you try to get them apart.
All right so now what we're going to do is evenly distribute our cheese mixture across the noodles, um evenly among all of your noodles, you want about a fourth of a cup. If you want to be like super precise like Andrew would you can totally measure this out or you can just eyeball it.
All right so now what we're going to do is evenly distribute our cheese mixture across the noodles, um evenly among all of your noodles, you want about a fourth of a cup. If you want to be like super precise like Andrew would you can totally measure this out or you can just eyeball it.
Once you have your cheese mixture distributed you are just going to roll it up similar to how you would do a cinnamon roll. You don't want it to be super loose so try to get it as tight as possible.
We're adding the remaining of our vegan mozzarella and then the remaining of our vegan parmesan as well. And now this is going to go back into the oven for 10 minutes or until it's nice and bubbly And there you are, your easy vegan lasagna roll-ups.
All right so whether you are using a homemade sauce like we made or you are using a jar sauce you want to put about one and a half cups into the bottom of a 9x13 casserole dish and just spread it evenly along the bottom. Once your sauce mixture is down, you are going to place your lasagna roll ups seam side down into your casserole dish.
Just evenly you don't really need to space them apart any particular way or anything, Just get them in there.
Once you have all your lasagna roll-ups inside you are going to top it with another one and a half cups of your sauce mixture whatever you are using. All right so now we're just going to cover our casserole dish with some foil and then we are going to bake that at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. S2: This is so good. It looks like a broken race car.
Just evenly you don't really need to space them apart any particular way or anything, Just get them in there.
Once you have all your lasagna roll-ups inside you are going to top it with another one and a half cups of your sauce mixture whatever you are using. All right so now we're just going to cover our casserole dish with some foil and then we are going to bake that at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. S2: This is so good. It looks like a broken race car.
What To Do While You Wait For It To Cook (Bonus!)
S1: No it doesn't, it looks like a snake. L: All right so after about 30 minutes you are going to remove it from the oven take your foil off and then we are going to top it with our cheeses.Finished Vegan Lasagna Roll Ups
We're adding the remaining of our vegan mozzarella and then the remaining of our vegan parmesan as well. And now this is going to go back into the oven for 10 minutes or until it's nice and bubbly And there you are, your easy vegan lasagna roll-ups.
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