All you need to make baked eggplant parm are nine ingredients. Eggplant. The most important tip I can give here is this: Use fresh, ripe eggplant for this recipe ... fried eggplant when baked. No ...

In this recipe I salt the eggplant slices, not to get rid of bitterness (modern eggplant varieties aren’t bitter) but to collapse the spongy texture a bit so the eggplant slices don’t soak up ...

What a fantastic recipe ... Now make a flourless batter: eggs scrambled with Parmesan and pecorino. Get the oil in your pan nice and hot again, dip the fried eggplant into the egg mixture ...