CHEESY PASTA ROLLS
Ingredients
- oil for greasing
- 100g/4oz tinned chopped tomatoes
- pinch dried chilli flakes (optional)
- 100g/4oz ricotta cheese
- pinch ground black pepper
- small handful fresh mint
- large handful baby leaf spinach
- 1 fresh lasagne sheet (17 x 22 cm)
- 15g/1oz cheddar
- grated
Directions
- Before cooking
- wash your hands and put on an apron. Weigh or measure all the ingredients. Ask a grown-up to preheat the oven to 210C/415F/Gas 7. Oil an ovenproof dish.
- Put the tomatoes into a cup and add a pinch of chilli flakes if you like things spicy. Stir with a fork and put to one side to use later.
- In a bowl
- mix the ricotta and black pepper together with a fork. Using scissors (ask a grown-up to help you)
- cut up the mint and spinach leaves into smaller pieces and add them to the cheese in the bowl. Mix until well combined.
- Fold the lasagne sheet in half
- matching the short sides. Gently run your fingers over the fold to help the pasta break into two pieces. Spread the cheese mixture on top of both pieces of lasagna
- then roll them up into tubes
- starting at the short edge.
- Pour enough of the chopped tomato and chilli mixture into the ovenproof dish to cover the bottom. Place the rolled-up lasagne tubes into the dish and pour over the rest of the chopped tomatoes. Top with a sprinkling of grated cheese. Put the dish on the baking tray and ask a grown-up to cook it for 15-20 minutes. Serve with a green salad.

