Slow-cooked balsamic beef cheeks - Penguin Books New Zealand

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 4 beef cheeks (about 1.2kg total)
• 4 tbsp flour or cornflour
• 1 onion, diced
• 6 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
• 4 carrots, sliced into rounds
• 2 bay leaves
• handful of fresh thyme sprigs,finely chopped
• 2 cups beef stock
• ¼ cup balsamic vinegar