These easy, delicious, high-protein Cottage Cheese Lasagna Roll Ups are vegetarian and perfect weeknight dinners.
Lasagna Roll Ups With Cottage Cheese
I swapped out ricotta for cottage cheese in these cheesy lasagna roll ups, and no one in my family noticed a thing! In fact my daughter actually liked it better! Cottage cheese has a similar creamy texture to ricotta cheese, so it can be used in place of ricotta in many dishes without sacrificing texture or flavor. Compared to ricotta, it’s generally lower in calories and fat and higher in protein, which can help keep you feeling full and satisfied for a longer time. This vegetarian recipe is perfect for those who love lasagna but want a lighter and healthier version. You can see more cottage cheese recipes here if you need more breakfast, lunch or dinner ideas. And foe more lasagna recipes to try: Spinach Lasagna Roll Ups, this protein-packed Lasagna Recipe with meat sauce and my popular Lasagna Soup recipe.
This easy lasagna recipe with cottage cheese is perfect for weeknight dinners. It’s also vegetarian, can be made gluten-free and easy to make ahead.
Lasagna Roll Up Ingredients
- Marinara Sauce: Use jarred or homemade marinara or this 3-ingredient tomato sauce.
- Noodles: You’ll need eight uncooked lasagna noodles – gluten-free or wheat will work too.
- Cottage Cheese: I like Good Culture’s 2% cottage cheese.
- Parmesan: Grate 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese.
- Herbs: Chop fresh parsley for the filling. Dried will work too, or swap it for basil. You’ll also want some for garnishing.
- Pesto: Two tablespoons of pesto enhance the flavor while only using one ingredient.
- Egg: One egg binds the cheese filling. If you have an egg allergy you can omit, although it will be a little runnier but still delish!
- Salt and Pepper for seasoning the cheese mixture and extra salt for the pasta water
- Mozzarella: Top each lasagna roll with shredded mozzarella.
How to Make Cottage Cheese Lasagna Roll Ups
- Prep: Preheat the oven to 350°F. Ladle a cup of sauce on the bottom of a 9” x 12” oval baking dish.
- Pasta: Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, cook the noodles according to package directions, and drain.
- Cheese Mixture: Combine the cottage cheese, parmesan, parsley, pesto, egg, salt, and pepper in a bowl.
- Roll Up the Lasagna: Place a piece of wax paper on the counter and lay out the noodles (Make sure they’re dry). Spread a third cup of the cheese mixture over the noodle. Roll it carefully and place seam-side down in the baking dish. Repeat the process with the other noodles.
- Bake: Ladle the remaining sauce over the noodles and top each with a tablespoon of mozzarella. Cover the dish with foil, being careful not to let it touch the cheese, and bake it for 40 minutes.
What to Serve with Lasagna Roll Ups
These healthy cottage cheese lasagna roll ups would be great with an Italian side salad and garlic knots. Or serve it with broccolini, parmesan green beans, or wilted spinach.
How to Meal Prep Lasagna Roll Ups
These easy lasagna roll ups are fantastic for meal prep and freezing.
- Meal Prep: Assemble the rolls, cover the baking dish, and refrigerate overnight. Bake the dish the next day as instructed.
- Freeze Unbaked: You can freeze the entire dish unbaked for up to three months. Thaw it in the refrigerator and then bake according to the directions.
- Leftovers: Cooked lasagna roll ups will last up to four days in the fridge or up to three months in the freezer. Reheat in the microwave or oven until warm.
More Lasagna Recipes You’ll Love
- Chicken Parmesan Lasagna
- Lasagna Soup
- Veggie Lasagna Zucchini Boats
- Noodle-less Butternut-Sausage Lasagna
- Spaghetti Squash Sausage Lasagna Boats
Lasagna Roll Ups With Cottage Cheese
Ingredients
- 2 cups homemade or jarred marinara sauce, plus more for serving
- 8 uncooked lasagna noodles, wheat or gluten-free
- 16 ounces 2% cottage cheese, I like Good Culture, drained
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- 2 tablespoons pesto, prepared or homemade
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Black pepper to taste
- 1/2 cup part skim mozzarella cheese, shredded (about 3 oz)
- basil or parsley, optional for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Ladle about 1 cup sauce on the bottom of a 9 x 12 or large oval baking dish.
- Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook noodles according to package directions, then drain.
- In a large bowl combine cottage cheese, Parmesan, parsley, pesto, egg, 1/2 teaspoon salt and black pepper and mix.
- Place a piece of wax paper on the counter and lay out lasagna noodles.
- Make sure noodles are dry. Take 1/3 cup of cheese mixture and spread evenly over noodle. Roll carefully and place seam side down onto the baking dish. Repeat with remaining noodles.
- Ladle remaining sauce over the noodles and top each one with 1 tbsp mozzarella cheese.
- Put foil over baking dish careful not to touch the cheese and bake for 40 minutes, or until cheese melts. Makes 8 rolls.
I got lazy and used a box of Reginetti pasta [like mini lasagna noodles with curly edges] and created a layered casserole rather than the rolled noodles. Also added some sauteed mushrooms to give it a “meaty” texture, for my husband. Tasted great, baked a little quicker and took a lot less time to make.
I love this recipe! It is delicious and I also like that it is easy to divide into single servings! My husband likes it, and my daughter asked for the recipe!
I absolutely LOVE this recipe. Already made it twice in less than a month and it was a successful dinner and meal prep meal. All of the ingredients are both light and filling and beyond delicious! This was beyond easy to put together, and bake and espciellay easy on a new cooker such as myself!
This is a winner and so quick to put together. My husband said it was delicious, and has no idea it was made with cottage cheese. I won’t tell if you don’t.
I won’t! 🙂
A fan of your original lasagna roll up recipe, I was really excited to try this one tonight. My husband and I loved it, and it’s made just enough for both of us to take for lunch tomorrow. Thanks for another winner, Gina!
So happy you enjoyed it!
This was really good! My family doesn’t like ricotta cheese and aren’t big fans of cottage cheese, so I blended the cheese mixture before spreading it on the noodles. Everyone loved it.
So good and satisfying! A definite keeper for us.
Went together easily and in a short time! Tasty and a real comfort food made healthy
Delicious! I only used 1T of pesto b/c my family doesn’t love it but I thought it still gave it enough great taste. Also, I checked it at 30 minutes and it was very liquidy, so I cooked the last 5 minutes uncovered and that reduced the liquid and made it perfect. Definitely will make again.
Wow! Delicious and satisfying. Served with steamed broccoli on the side. My meat loving husband loved it too.
Perfect!
This is an excellent, easy to make, very tasty recipe with a great presentation! Grown children and grandchildren alike loved it!
Perfect!
Sooo good, but not too heavy
Question, the ingredients list has 1 teaspoon of salt but the directions say to mix in 1/2 teaspoon of salt. I don’t see anywhere else in the directions to incorporate the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of salt from the ingredients list. Do I use 1/2 teaspoon of salt as the directions state or 1 teaspoon of salt as the ingredients list states?
Excellent! My husband and I both loved this recipe. It turned out beautifully.
Planning on making this tomorrow, could I put the roll ups in the slow cooker instead of the oven? Any tips on how long or what setting to have the slow cooker at? Thanks!
Delicious and ridiculously easy! I left out the pesto because someone in the family doesn’t like pesto (crazy I know), but this is a great recipe and 2 roll ups are filling! If you want a little meat added, use a meat sauce vs. marinara, but this is now on heavy rotation at my house.
HI Claudine! I liked your comments to this dish. My husband definitely wants a meat in his meal. I was glad to see this is a possibility. Do you have suggestions for a meat sauce, make a meat sauce so not runny ?
You can use the sauce from this recipe- https://www.skinnytaste.com/spaghetti-squash-with-meat-sauce-46-pts/
Excellent! Definitely going into our rotation!
This is so good
Thiss was a winner. Made it for a dinner with friends. Took a little of the fat out but was a big hit! I would make it again
These were easy to make and excellent! I will definitely make them often!
This recipe turned out great! I used a little less of the fats and couldn’t really do anything about the carbs. I prepped it with my husband to take over a friends for dinner. So while we watched the sunset over the bay, our pasta cooked. Absolutely amazing!
Easy to make and delicious. My husband loved it so we will have it often.
followed the recipe exactly, and this came out delicious 🙂 it was pretty easy to make and is super filling! my 16 year old sister tried some as leftovers and texted me “i just ate the lasagna rolls you made. it was so good i could cry” lol, so this recipe is def a keeper!
Aww love it!
This dish was delicious and easy to prepare for a weeknight meal! The cottage cheese filling reminded me of ricotta, making it lighter than traditional lasagna.
Loved this! Easy to make! Thanks!
Delicious and easy to make. I don’t typically like cottage cheese but you couldn’t even taste it. I will be making this again!
I’ve made these before, and they are quite good. If I add some sweet italian turkey sausage, what would the nutrition profile look like? Maybe I’ll just do at least 1/4 or 1/2 a pound. Thanks!
Lasagna craving satisfied! Easy to make yet so yummy!
Perfect weeknight dinner – super easy and quick to prep and delicious! Definitely a keeper!
This was so delicious and much quicker to make than lasagna. My picky son loved it.
Perfect!
Awesome recipe. Very filling.
!0 star for us, really liked this and would be nice for company. (I added as, another rollup recipe of Skinnytaste)–5 oz of spinach that had been cooked and squeezed out. Great.
Delicious! All 3 of my picky eaters loved it and my husband went back for seconds. I added a handful of fresh basil to the filling and used fresh pasta. Will definitely make again.
This was very yummy and easy to make. I used 1% cottage cheese and blended it smooth before adding the other cheeses (only so my picky son wouldn’t recognize the cottage cheese). He had two helpings! Thank you!!!!
Delicious! Just came back from a 10 day Med cruise, and need to loose a few extra pounds! Husband says it was really good, I’ll call it a keeper!
Thank you Gina, for another wonderful recipe.
(Truth be told, 85% of the recipes I cook, are Skinnytaste!)
Thanks Carol!
Very good. I love a flavor bomb and added a 1/2 pound of Italian sausage. Easy, healthy and love that you can freeze individual portions. Helps to drain the cottage cheese.
I despise cottage cheese and I loved these. Thanks so much for another great recipe!
Delicious! Great lower calorie pasta meal and you don’t miss meat at all. Mine came out kinda watery, but probably depends on the brand of cottage cheese (and didn’t put us off). I blended the cottage cheese down so my kids had no idea ;-). Also, I’d recommend doing all 8 rolls at once, because 1/3c per roll would’ve had me run out at about 6 rolls! So I’m glad I was able to re-allocate the mix before rolling & placing.
Picky husband and I both really liked this recipe. It’s easy and great for a meatless meal with plenty of leftovers. I was so happy to use two cubes of pesto I had made last summer with basil from my garden.
Perfect!
This was delicious! I think that touch of pesto really adds to the flavor of this dish. I agree with another commenter that it was a bit too salty for me, so I will decrease the salt next time. There was an adequate amount of sauce but I will probably increase it next time; that’s just my own personal preference. I like things saucy! 🙂
My Aldi-brand oven-ready lasagna noodle box did not include cooking directions, but I found boiling them for about 4 minutes worked fine for me. 3 minutes was OK, although a little harder to work with. I note this because nowhere online did I find anything other than “read the directions on the box”! Not helpful when the box assumes you’re putting them in a traditional lasagna.
These turned out amazing! I’m not a huge fan of Parmesan, so cut the amount and used nutritional yeast instead. Will definitely be adding these to the rotation! ☺️ I would love to get some more vegetables in them! Do you have any recommendations for options that would work well while maintaining the structure of the rollup? Perhaps spinach and peppers?
Spinach definately would! https://www.skinnytaste.com/spinach-lasagna-rolls/
Planned to make the Skinnytaste Best Lasagna today for a birthday meal and when my daughter and vegetarian son in law made a last minute visit for the birthday, I was able to make these Lasagna Roll Ups! They were a big hit and I can’t wait to have the leftovers of both dishes tomorrow! Great timing with the posting Gina!!!!
Agree with all the great reviews, this is a winner. I followed the instructions exactly – just the right amount of filling and the consistency was perfect.
This is so delicious! You dont even miss the meat and its relatively cheap to make. The sodium is a bit high, so I did decrease it the next time I made it and it’s still very good. I also made a double batch and froze one uncooked. I havent made that one yet, but I’m sure it’ll be great!
Delicious dish! Will definitely make it again.
I love this recipe! It’s delicious as is and I sometimes add cooked ground Italian sausage to the cottage cheese mixture.
This was delicious…used someone’s suggestion and used spinach instead of parsley.
Yum! I did this in a traditional layered lasagna format (8×8) finishing with noodles, sauce and the mozzarella on top. I also added some turkey sausage. I used a teaspoon of dry pesto mix I had on hand in the cottage cheese. This was absolutely delicious! My husband is already asking for me to make it again.
I made this tonight exactly as written but did not use a 9×13 pan to bake it. I baked 4 individual servings so those counting WW points could have an accurate measurement. I used Rao’s marinara and Barilla Pesto. It was delicious. Even my two yr old grandson loved it. I will definitely make it again.
Love this recipe! I’m making again tonight!
This was a crowd pleaser in our house tonight!! Pesto was such an easy way to add so much flavor!
Can these be frozen? I usually look for the FM and don’t see it.
I used homemade sauce and homemade pesto. What a delicious and healthy idea.
My family loves these and they’re now in the regular rotation! We’re working on increasing the amount of nights we eat vegetarian. We didn’t even miss meat in this dish. Delicious!
Wonderful!! The whole family loved these! So easy and so good!
Been looking for meatless options that still have enough protein for my teen son. This meal is delicious!
Can you make these with zucchini instead of noodles?
My family loves this recipe. I add cooked, ground Italian sausage sometimes too
This is such a good recipe, my husband was blown away at how good it was so this will be one of our favorites, it is not too hard to make so, any cook should be able to do this.
My husband has requested them three weeks in a row!
Are the lasagna noodles wheat or can they just be regular lasagna noodles? I was making sure the calories were right with the lasagna noodles if I used regular or wheat (which I can’t find)
Regular (though you can use wheat or GF if you prefer)
Fantastic recipe! It was so flavorful and you don’t even miss having meat in them!
Big hit with my husband. He couldn’t believe it had 30+ grams of protein in 2 rollups with no meat. Will definitely make again.
Great!!
Delish! I added 1/2 lb of ground beef and made 2 more roll ups, worked great!
I’m allergic to pesto, what can I use instead??
Omit it
Easy to prepare, delicious – thanks so much for sharing!
I used Rao’s Marinara to simplify and this still took me a while to prep, but it was definitely worth the effort. The flavor was great for a meatless lasagna. This has been added to my favorite recipes list!
Delicious! My husband called this a keeper. That’s says it all!
This is really one of the first recipes I’ve ever truly hated. First the 1/3 cup portions of filling was too much and I ran out halfway through, then the whole mixture turned into some weird bland soup in the oven. Literally used $15 of ingredients only to throw it away ):
Have no idea how since my photographer who shot this and even my video of this turned out perfect. Did you change anything?
I made this for my family and it was very easy to make and we all loved it.
Ok so this was GREAT!!!! Fed it to my family and my husband asked, what the ingredient were and he said, so ricotta cheese, etc….Flavor was phenomenal! This recipe will be on our rotation! Make it you WON’T be disappointed!
Outstanding recipe, very easy to make ,super super tasty. That was my husband’s birthday dinner. He absolutely loved it. Thank you so much for your recipes.
This recipe was delicious! My kids didn’t even notice it was cottage cheese, they actually liked it more!
My daughter too!!
Made this & turned out very good & so were the leftovers. I did add a 1/2# of cooked ground beef to the sauce. I also put the cottage cheese in the blender (by mistake) but it did make look more like the ricotta. Next time going to add some mushrooms.
Perfect!
Soooo good! I was excited I had leftovers.
This meal was so delightful! I loved the pesto touch of the filling and I didn’t miss the ricotta cheese. I used Rao’s Marinara which upped the points to 15 for two rolls which is high but I think worth it. Yum!
Yum!
I decided to try this because I make the spinach lasagna rolls from Skinnytaste at least twice a month. I like cottage cheese as a protein source too (make eggs with cottage cheese nearly every morning). I also followed the instructions exactly with no substitutions. Unfortunately, even though the amount of pesto and parsley is minimal, that was the overwhelming flavor of this dish. It’s not throw away bad but I won’t be making it again. Highly recommend the spinach lasagna rolls from here instead.
Sorry you weren’t a fan, my daughter loved them more than my others!
This is a fantastic recipe! I assembled it on Sunday, and popped it in the oven for dinner tonight. So convenient! And it’s unusual for vegetarian dishes to get approval from my boys, but not a single complaint:)
From the first bite I was so impressed. These were so delicious. I’m Italian and grew up eating and cooking traditional lasagna but this recipe was yummier than any family recipe.
Absolutely delicious! I had to turn it into a regular lasagna as my gluten free noodles all broke in half while they cooked so I couldn’t roll them up. I found a great gluten free brand that tastes like regular noodles. I have to say, I was worried when I was putting it all together, but holy cow, it’s delicious!! My husband loved it as well. Definitely a keeper!
I JUST made these last night and it is the BOMB! So easy to make and SO yummy! Family LOVED it! I also used your Quick Marinara Sauce recipe and it too is so simple and easy and tastes fabulous!
I made the lasagna roll ups, they’re very good with the pesto in the filling, would not have thought to add that into the filling., Thank you.
Great!
Looks so delish! What can I use as a replacement for pesto? Would the recipe still work without it?
I’m making it with spinach instead of parsley. Hope that works out well!
Absolutely delicious!! My family loved this!
I am so glad!!
Looks great – could you add some kind of meat – beef/veal/pork/chicken/turkey?
I haven’t made it yet, I’m sure it will be great. I was just wondering if I could use a fat free cottage cheese to save on WW points?
Sure
Looks wonderful! How many WW points would this be?
They are 11, points are listed in blue button under recipe title. 🙂
Thank you for this recipe. Hoping to make soon.
Small point but there is a typo. In ingredient list, it says “1 large legg” and I assume it means “egg”. 😉
Do you ever drain your cottage cheese? Everytime I make a lasagna like dish with cottage cheese it is swimming in liquid if I don’t drain. I usually use Daisy brand.
yes!
That’s a good suggestion!