Braised Ox Cheeks - Sykes House Farm

Ingredients

• 4 ox cheeks (about 250g each), trimmed of excess fat and sinew
• 500ml bottle dark ale
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 carrots , roughly chopped
• 1 large onion , roughly chopped
• 2 celery sticks , roughly chopped
• 1 garlic bulb , broken into cloves, peeled
• a few thyme sprigs and rosemary sprigs
• 1l chicken stock
• 80g butter , softened at room temperature
• 1 tsp English mustard
• 2 shallots , very finely diced
• cooked pearl barley
• steamed greens