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 ...

and like all recipes, it has been adapted by her along the way. Instead of being crumbed and fried, the eggplant sandwiches a bread crumb stuffing. Preheat the oven to 180˚C. For the sugo ...