I can eat eggplant made this way. Even the kids ate it and liked it. I sweated it out with salt as suggested, added spinach, garlic S&P and nutmeg to the ricotta, had to make my own breadcrumbs and pasta sauce because i ran out. Kind of labor intensive though, not a great recipe for a weeknite without all the ingredients on hand premade. Probably took 1.5 hrs total for making 7 rolls. and you use more than 2 tbspn of EVOO to fry. Leftovers were good as well. had w/ brown rice. would make again for a weekend meal