Pork shoulder braised in beer | Gourmet Traveller

Ingredients

• 60 ml (¼ cup) olive oil
• 2 onions, coarsely diced
• 4 carrots, coarsely diced
• 4 celery stalks, coarsely diced
• 4 fresh bay leaves
• 6 star anise
• 2 cinnamon quills
• 2 tsp fennel seeds
• 1.5 litres (6 cups) pale ale
• 1.5 litres (6 cups) chicken stock
• 3 kg piece of boneless pork shoulder, rolled and tied with kitchen twine
• Potato purée
• 1.5 kg Dutch cream potatoes, scrubbed
• 125 gm butter, coarsely chopped
• 300 ml milk