Chicken and Sun Dried Tomato Lasagna Roll-Ups

Sometimes I put a lot of thought into the recipes I feature on this website, going to the trouble of researching the current trends to analyzing the most popular google searches for the season. The whole ordeal involves a lot of spreadsheets, sticky notes, and math – you know, all the those necessary evils of the corporate world.

But the rest of the time? What I make depends on what food I find on mega discount at my local grocery store. For instance, my place to grocery shop typically has a few fold out tables near the back where they place hot clearance items or (here’s the really good part) any food they need to move quickly. And the food isn’t expired or damaged or anything bad – it’s just that for one reason or another, they just need it gone ASAP and they’re willing to sell it practically at cost in order to do it.

So you can imagine my excitement when I rounded the corner and saw not only were the discount tables fully stocked, but they were absolutely overflowing with Delallo products. Delallo is one of the brands I look out for when I’m searching for Italian food, from gnocchi, pizza sauce, lady fingers – you name it. They cover all the bases of comfort food and I was simply beside myself when I saw that all their products were marked down nearly 75% off. I have no idea how I got so lucky, but I ended up buying just about four of each of my favorites.

And in that awesome food haul? Sun dried tomatoes. It wound up being the perfect inspiration for this dish – so much so that I had enough foresight to buy all the other ingredients to make it that day in the store. Because, seriously, this almost never happens for me. Typically I have to make multiple trips to the grocery store between all the spreadsheets and math before I have everything I need to start cooking.

It certainly helped that I had been craving stuffed pasta shells for the past few weeks, and anything with a lasagna theme would help me get my ricotta fix. I also debated going the more traditional route of using ground beef for this dish, but I just couldn’t seem to shake the fact that sun dried tomatoes needed chicken. Sun dried tomatoes just need chicken, ya know?

Overall, this dish was just as good as I imagined (and just as comfort-educing as all the other meals I make with Delallo products). It was also still just as perfect and as flavorful when I heated it up for lunch the next day. This will definitely be a repeat recipe in our house!