Lasagna Rolls with Cauliflower Mornay Sauce

Lasagna Rolls with Cauliflower Mornay 14

Overall, we try to stay away from overly complicated recipes. If there are too many steps or too many ingredients we tend to skip right over it. Neither Kelly nor I have the patience for multi-step recipes. But,  more importantly, our photographer does not appreciate spending more than 15 minutes working on one recipe. Complicated, time consuming recipes typically result in Cliff yelling at us to “hurry up, we are losing light!” Inevitably, this results in us rushing and a subpar dish. Now, if you don’t know us in real life you may think we have it all together. We try not to have stacks of dirty dishes in the background of our pictures. We rarely write about the fighting that goes on in our kitchen. And we certainly don’t share with you our recipe disasters. Believe me though, there are mounds of dishes piled up all over the kitchen. There are many afternoons ending with someone not speaking to someone else and we have more recipe disasters then I care to remember.

All this to say, we have a complicated, multi-step recipe for you today. It may be complicated but it is definitely not subpar. Sometimes, (rarely) complicated recipes are worth the work. This is one of them. I saw this in an issue of Food Network Magazine and I knew right away it was something that I’d like. But, there were so many steps. Wahhhhhh.  In fact there were so many steps that I didn’t even have the attention span to actually read them ahead of time. I barely made it through the ingredient list. So, even though I knew that we would all enjoy this I knew that parts would need to be cut out. So, this is our slightly adapted (easier) version of that recipe. And guess what? It was still chaos in our kitchen! We skipped the mushrooms, roasted the cauliflower, and turned this into lasagna rolls rather than a lasagna. But the results were worth it. We all really liked this recipe! In fact, I plan to make it again. Soon.

Here is what you'll need

Here is what you’ll need

Roast the cauliflower

Roast the cauliflower

Saute the onion and garlic with the olive oil

Saute the onion and garlic with the olive oil

Add the tomatoes, seasoning, and herbs

Add the tomatoes, red pepper flakes, and herbs

Blend the sauce with an immersion blender

Blend the sauce with an immersion blender

Heat butter and add flour then milk

Heat butter and add flour then milk

Add the cauliflower and blend with an immersion blender

Add the cauliflower and blend with an immersion blender

Add the cheese and nutmeg

Add the cheese and nutmeg

Make the filling

Make the filling

 

Cook the noodles and begin assembling. Put a layer of tomato sauce first.

Cook the noodles and begin assembling. Put a layer of tomato sauce first.

Add the mornay sauce

Add the mornay sauce

Do the same with the noodles and add the filling too

Do the same with the noodles and add the filling too

Roll each one up and top with more cheese

Roll each one up and top with more cheese

Whew! That was a lot of work. But worth every minute!

Whew! That was a lot of work. But worth every minute!

 

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