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You may just be cooking too much at once. I cook two to three sheets of lasagna or rolled pasta, such as cannelloni, at a time, assembling the lasagna or filling the pasta as I go. I remove the cooked sheets to a clean kitchen towel. When they are just cool enough to handle, continue building and add more fresh pasta to the cooking pot.
maybe they stick because they are overcooked. But, you should always add a spoonful or two of vegetable oil when boiling pasta of any kind to help them separate.
I never pre-cook lasagna sheets. Even if all of the sauces are prepared ahead of time, fresh pasta cooks so quickly in the oven that it will be cooked through. and if covered with sauces and cooked for at least 20 minutes, even store-bought dry lasagna sheets or cannelloni tubes will be cooked through.
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Don’t crowd the pan
It makes sense that the noodles will be less likely to stick together if they have plenty of space to move about in the boiling water.
Thus, make sure the pan you use is large enough to fit the pasta you want to cook. When it comes to lasagna noodles, a large stew pot or Dutch oven with deep sides is required.
Do remember to stir the noodles
The water will temporarily cool down after you add the noodles to the boiling water. But it will rise soon and timing is the key.
Stir the pasta after adding it for one or two minutes. The pasta surface becomes covered in sticky starch during this period.
Pasta pieces that come into contact with one another will literally cook together in a single mass if you don’t stir the water.
If you’ve ever pulled out your noodles, thinking they were done, only to discover they were all torn to tatters or stuck together, consider whether you salted the water.
