Lasagna Rolls

When you are craving Italian food, because we all do, this is a great, healthy recipe to turn to.  These lasagna rolls are fairly easy to make and packed with not only delicious flavor, but tons of nutrition.  You will please everyone with this cheesy little roll ups.  

Ingredients:
10-12 uncooked lasagna noodles
1-2 jars of your favorite tomato sauce
1/2 tsp of ground pepper
3/4 tsp salt
1 large egg
1 cup grated Parmesan
1 10 oz package of frozen spinach, thawed and drained
1 15 oz container of low fat ricotta cheese
2 cups of shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.  Boil the noodles until they are al dente (or not fully cooked).  Carefully drain so they do not break.  The noodles will be very fragile.  Lay out noodles on cookie sheet.  Spray a 13 x 9 baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.  Pour half of a jar of tomato sauce on the bottom of the baking dish.  In a bowl, mix together spinach, ricotta cheese, 1 cup of mozzarella, Parmesan, egg, salt, and pepper.  Combine all ingredients until they are well incorporated.  Spoon about 2 TBS of the cheese and spinach mixture on to each noodle and spread evenly over noodle.  Start and one end and roll the lasagna noodle up until it is in a roll-up form.  Put seam down into sauced baking dish.  Once all roll-ups are settled in the dish, cover with remaining tomato sauce.  (Add as much of the sauce as you would like, depending on how saucy you like it- we like it saucy!)  Then, sprinkle sauced noodles with remaining cup of mozzarella cheese.  Cover with tin foil and bake for 20 minutes.  Uncover the baking dish and bake for 15 more minutes.  If you want a crunchy top like ours, turn the broiler on for the remaining 3-5 minutes.  Enjoy!
*Adding meat to this recipe would be an awesome addition, but remember meat adds more fat and calories.  This meal is delicious without it! :)