Spinach Lasagna Rolls with Easy Meat Sauce

These cheesy lasagna rolls are topped with a super quick and easy meat sauce. They’re perfect comfort food for a crowd, or if you want leftovers all week!

Happy weekend, friends! This weekend is the best weekend, because yesterday I got the best Christmas present ever. I got my hubby back after an almost 4 month deployment! Hooray!

The mutt and I are seriously happy. The cat? She’s not so sure yet. I think she liked having my snuggles all to herself. Three and a half months isn’t the longest time by military standards, and I did get to see Nick in October when I visited him on a port call in Chile. BUT it still felt pretty darn long. And I’m so glad we get to have Christmas together!

All the cheesy I’ll be Home for Christmas and All I Want for Christmas is You songs were oh so appropriate this year. I’ve been listening to Christmas music since before Thanksgiving this year and I was sooo ready.

Needless to say, for the past 4 months my fridge has been pretty bare. I don’t cook a ton when Nick isn’t home, and I live on cereal and egg sandwiches. I wanted to have something in the fridge for him when he got home, something that’s easy to reheat that he could grab for lunch all week.

I remembered how much I loved having these Pumpkin and Spinach Lasagna Rolls in the fridge last month. You can’t go wrong with comfort food. Especially after 4 months of boat food. Apparently they even ran out of vegetables a few weeks ago! Eek.

While pumpkin is not necessarily Nick’s #1 favorite, a hearty meat marinara sauce certainly is. I took the cheesy lasagna rolls and covered them in a really quick and easy meat sauce instead! And they came out amazing. If you’re looking for us around lunchtime this week, we’ll be stuffing our faces with these…

Spinach Lasagna Rolls with Easy Meat Sauce

 

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Author: Flying on Jess Fuel

Recipe type: Entree

Cuisine: Pasta

Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 1 lb lasagna noodles
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 (24 oz) jar marinara sauce
• 1 (14.5) oz can diced tomatoes
• ¼ tsp red pepper flakes (optional)
• 30 oz ricotta cheese
• 10 oz pkg chopped frozen spinach, defrosted and squeezed dry
• ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 eggs
• Salt & pepper, to taste
• 8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Boil lasagna noodles according to package directions.
3. Meanwhile, cook ground beef in a large saute pan over medium-high heat, crumbling it up, until browned and cooked through. Drain excess grease, then return to stove and add marinara sauce, diced tomatoes and red pepper flake. Bring to a simmer, stirring, and cook 3 minutes to incorporate flavors. Remove from heat.
4. In a medium bowl, combine ricotta, spinach, Parmesan and eggs. Season with salt & pepper and stir until well combined.
5. Spread a thin layer of the meat sauce in the bottom of a large baking dish or two (I used one 8-inch square pan and one 9 x 13 inch pan).
6. Spread a thin layer of ricotta mixture along each lasagna noodle. Starting at one end, roll the ricotta-covered noodles up. Place rolls into the baking dishes.
7. Cover rolls with remaining meat sauce, then sprinkle mozzarella cheese over top.
8. Cover with tin foil and bake 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake an additional 10 minutes, until cheese is melted and bubbly.
9. Enjoy!

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