Fodder and sugar beet can externally resemble, but to taste it is absolutely different types of vegetable. Therefore it is important to know differences of these root crops from each other accidentally not to use fodder beet in preparation of dishes.
Types of beet
There are four main types of beet:
- fodder;
- sugar;
- dining room;
All these beets have the uniform predecessor – beet wild out of which all other types of vegetable were brought further.
Listovaya and the dining room types of beet are used generally in culinary business.
And, apparently from the name, take from sheet beet generally its leaves. Root crops can be applied as a forage to animals.
Table beet differs in the pleasant flavor therefore it is quite often added to various dishes. Besides this look found application and in cosmetology thanks to the good moistening and nutritive properties.
It is also possible to guess purpose of a fodder and sugar beet by the name.
Fodder beet is given in food to pets. It perfectly is suitable for completion of a lack of vitamins and minerals at dairy animals, improves a yield of milk and increases milk value.
Fodder beet contains not enough sugar. Selectors managed to bring other type of vegetable with the raised sugar content out of it – a sugar beet.
The sugar beet by and large is a commercial crop from which produce sugar. Usually fulfilled products don't utilize. They can be used also as a forage for animals or fertilizer of the earth.
Even despite primary application of a sugar beet in production, many people eat it. At the correct processing from a sugar beet very tasty and useful dishes turn out.
External differences of a fodder and sugar beet
If there is an intention to prepare some dish from a sugar beet, then first of all it is necessary to buy it after all. There can be a hitch. Not all sellers in the market differ in honesty, some sell fodder beet under the guise of sugar.
This two types of beet are various on the proportions. Fodder vegetable can be various form: from round to rather extended. Sugar beet has an appearance of the extended cone.
The bigger value has distinction of vegetables in color. Sugar beet always evenly white or white and cream color. The root crop has no transitional flowers or any bright shades. It is connected with the fact that this beet grows completely shipped in the earth.
The root crop of fodder beet strongly towers above the ground and constantly is exposed to insolation. Because of it the top part of a root crop will always have any given shade, usually more pale, than an underground part. The primary color can be red, orange or yellow various degree of brightness. Between land and underground parts most often there is a smooth gradient of transition of color the sugar beet doesn't have that.
Structure of sugar and fodder beet
On structure vegetables are very similar. The basic and the most significant distinction consists in the content of plain carbohydrate – sucrose.
In a sugar beet the amount of sugar can reach 20% whereas fodder beet contains no more than 1.5-3% of carbohydrate.
Besides the sugar beet is more vitamin-rich. It contains vitamins C, E, PP, A, groups B. Fodder beet has a smaller variety of vitamins. It includes vitamins E and groups B. The sugar beet is also richer micro and macrocells.
The general value of a sugar beet is higher that at fodder product. However fodder beet differs in good molokogonny effect and promotes improvement of quality of a yield of milk.
Sugar beet in dishes
Unlike fodder beet sugar quite often use for preparation of various sweeties and special culinary additives. It can be also added to borsches or do with it salads.
Caloric content of root crops of a sugar beet can differ a little depending on content of sugar in them. The nutrition value of vegetable averages 39-42 kcal on 100 grams of a product.
Culinary recipes
From a sugar beet it is possible to prepare a sugar syrup which is used for decoration of desserts and giving of a peculiar taste to them.
Ingredients:
- sugar beet – 10 kg;
- water – 1.5 l;
- citric acid – on requirement.
Step-by-step scheme of preparation:
- Carefully to wash beet that on it there was no garbage or dirt. It can also be cleaned, but some don't do it.
- Take a pan from stainless steel. Pour water into it and put beet. Beet has to plunge into water completely.
- Cook on strong fire before boiling. Then fire to lower and cook already on average fire.
- Cook beet before full preparation. On it can leave of 20 minutes till 2 o'clock depending on the beet size. It is possible to check its readiness by means of a knife, beet has to become soft.
- After beet completely cooks, it is necessary to wring out properly it in a pan.
- Then to cook the turned-out juice before its jelling. The consistence has to be to similar sour cream.
- It is possible to store the turned-out syrup in glass jars. That the product quickly didn't become candied, it is possible to use 1 gram of citric acid on 1 kg of syrup.
According to other recipe from a sugar beet it is possible to prepare sweet from the baked vegetable.
What is necessary:
- sugar beet of the average size – 2-3 pieces.
- foil – on requirement, depending on the beet size.
This recipe very simple also doesn't demand any serious preparations. Only step by step it is necessary to execute the following:
- To carefully wash beet and to clean it from a peel.
- Without cutting vegetables, to wrap up everyone in 2-3 layers of a foil.
- Warm an oven to 180-220 degrees and place the wrapped-up beet in already warmed oven.
- Bake vegetable 1.5-2 hours.
- After roasting to peel beet from the formed crust.
- The dish is ready.