Sweating Your Eggplant

Here is a useful tip for reducing the water content in your eggplant.
Slice up your eggplant and add salt(about 1/2 cup for a large eggplant).
Let it sweat for about an hour. Rinse thoroughly before cooking with them to remove all the salt.

The benefits of sweating your eggplant are:
Reduction of bitterness
Firms the flesh which will reduce the amount of oil they absorb if your are frying them, etc.

From: From Farm to Family