Spiced beef with stout & prunes | Good Food

Ingredients

• 1.4kg braising beef cut into 2.5cm pieces
• 3½ tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 onion finely chopped
• ½ tsp ground allspice
• a pinch of ground cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 10 juniper berries crushed
• grating of nutmeg
• 200ml stout
• 500ml beef stock
• 275g carrots (about 2 large), cut into chunks
• 3 tsp muscovado sugar
• 2 bay leaves
• 125g pitted prunes roughly chopped
• 125g small baby onions
• 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley