BBC Food - Recipes - Vanilla cured salmon with cucumber ketchup, charred cucumber and pickled ginger

Ingredients

• 2 vanilla pods
• 200g/7oz caster sugar
• 200g/7oz sea salt
• 1.5kg/3lb 5oz salmon fillet, skin on, pin boned, washed and patted dry
• 1 bunch breakfast radish es, halved lengthways, to garnish
• 1 punnet mustard cress , to garnish
• watercress , to garnish
• 2 cucumbers
• 100ml/3½fl oz rice wine vinegar
• 1 tsp caster sugar
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 2-3 tsp xantham gum
• rapeseed oil , for griddling
• 1 pinch caster sugar
• 1 pinch sea salt
• 50g/1¾oz piece fresh root ginger , peeled and finely cut into thin strips