Stuffed Black Carrots (Jazar Aswad Mahshi)

From "The Aleppo Cookbook" by Marlene Matar

Black carrots are grown mainly in Turkey, the Middle East, and the Far East. In Aleppo they are plentiful during the winter season and are the main ingredient in the dish below and in carrot stew. Black carrots are very hard, and it is just about impossible to core them with an ordinary vegetable corer. In Aleppo, they are available in the market alread…