thanks, Tim. my wife really likes it and its a filling meal on its own and meatless too. overall effort was a 2 of 5. it's pretty simple work, especially since i refused to fry the sliced eggplant. a little salt and evoo and let them rest for 2 hours. then the CI sear and cool for a bit. the filling was measured as 1 TB ricotta per slice (16 TBs total), one egg, gran garlic, italian herbs and a dash of black pepper and mix. then added into the mix some shredded mozz and sprinkled pecorino. mixed all together and spooned a heavy TB onto each eggplant plank and then rolled. sauce was crushed Cento toms, evoo, salt, italian herbs, gran garlic, gran onion, sprinkle of oregano. assembled all and oven baked covered for 30 mins at 325F (convection) and then removed foil for 25 mins/till brown for the mozz.Nice done! That was just on smitten kitchen with Deb Pearlman. Yours looks really good.
Agreed. Nearly identical.I think they’re pretty much the same thing.
https://www.withspice.com/blog/eggplant-involtini/
Yeah, I’d didn’t leave me feeling heavy. Thankfully. The cheese was dense enough. Everyone enjoyed it. It’s almost gone now.Smittenkitchen.com
I don't love everything she does, but she has serious skills.
Yours looks excellent. Frying the eggplant really is tedious, among other things. Delicious, but I dig your fresh-approach.