Braised Feather Blade Beef Recipe - Great British Chefs

Ingredients

• 2kg feather blade of beef, trimmed of all fat and sinew
• 4 onions, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1l beef stock
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 tsp sugar
• 500ml of ale, or substitute for the same amount of red wine if preferred
• 1 dash of sunflower oil
• 50g of unsalted butter
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1 bunch of baby carrots, tops trimmed
• 1 bunch of tenderstem broccoli, or purple sprouting brocolli, stalks trimmed
• 1/2 butternut squash, deseeded and cut into wedges
• 4 leeks, washed, trimmed and cut on the diagonal into 4cm lengths
• oil, for roasting