Alex Rushmer’s Duck Breast with crackling, pickled cucumber & spiced tobacco caramel

This was one of the recipes we cooked at the Masterchef Cookalong at the recent BBC Good Food Show. We made this recipe within the 30 minutes, except for the crackling as we didn’t have enough time for that. It is much simpler than I expected and the caramel is a deliciously fragrant invention, well…