Lasagna Rolls – without egg

All the lasagna roll recipes I’ve come across have eggs.  My nephew, J2, is allergic to eggs.  So, every now and then I am inspired to try something egg-free for his benefit.  Like, Thanksgiving is egg-free, nut-free, gluten-free and mostly lactose-free.  I feel that everyone should be able to eat everything if they are dining at my house.  So I wanted to come up with a recipe for J2.

The reason you’d use egg in a roll recipe is to keep the innerds from spilling out.  I thought cream cheese could help with that problem.  And it did.

Ingredients

Dry lasagne noodles

1/2 tub herb and garlic cream cheese

1/4 cup Parmesan

1/2 package frozen spinach, cooked in the microwave

1 cup shredded chicken breast (or ground chicken, cooked)

Black pepper, oregano and basil to taste

2 cups spagetti sauce (that your mother-in-law made from scratch and gives you every September, after a sauce making-a-thon in her garage)

1 cup Mozzarella

Parmesan

Directions

Cook the lasagna noodles.  Once they are cooked and floppy, transfer them into a bowl of cold water.  This stops them from cooking and lowers the temperature so you can actually handle them.  I cook my noodles in groups of four, just to make it easier to work with.

Combine the cheeses, chicken, spinach and spices in bowl.

Spray your casserole dish with cooking spray and add a spoon full of sauce and spread it out over the bottom.  Lay out a noodle, add a generous tablespoon of ‘innerds’, about 2 inches in from the end and fold the noodle end over.  Add another scoop of mix.  Roll up and lay in your casserole.

If you have any mix left after, just lift a roll and stuff some more in.  Pour on the sauce and top with cheeses.  Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

Dr. T HATES spinach and he ate this.  A big game in my kitchen is masking the taste of foods that he doesn’t like.  He mostly doesn’t like ‘green stuff’.  And I love ‘green stuff’.  So if I want to eat it, I have to make sure it’s flavourful enough for him to fork it down.

(PS.  I ran out of mozzarella, so I used cheddar.  That’s why the top is orange in the picture.  Use mozz, it will taste better!) 

~ Liz