Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes are a perfect side dish for chicken, fish, steak, or even as a filling lunch. Making baked sweet potatoes in an Instant Pot saves time and they’re ready in half the time of a conventional oven!
Baked Sweet Potatoes… Faster!
I am a sweet potato fan. Don’t you just love them?! People like their sweet potatoes different ways; I’m a simple butter and salt girl while many like butter and brown sugar. To each his own.
Sweet potatoes are rich in fiber as well as various vitamins. Their beautiful orange color is also so pretty!
My husband gave me an Instant Pot for Christmas last year and it sat in the box for six months. Oops! Turns out, it is now one of my favorite kitchen appliances! I’ve made as-good-as-a-restaurant Mexican Rice and Refried Beans, plus I now only every make baked potatoes in my Instant Pot.
I do have to say that the only thing I do not use my Instant Pot for is slow cooking. Thinking of trying out the slow cooker feature? Let me save you some trouble… it’s not good. It just doesn’t seem to get hot enough to handle a slow cooking job like a roast. In fact, I’ll have to tell you my story some time of the night I tried to make a roast in the Instant Pot using the slow cooker feature and ended up sending my husband to Bob Evans to get us some pot roast after mine was an utter disaster.
I say use the Instant Pot for what it is absolutely great at… pressure cooking! And besides, I still love my slow cooker.
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Making Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes
To make Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes, place the steaming trivet in the bottom and then add a cup of water.
Place six medium sweet potatoes on top of the steaming trivet.
Lock the Instant Pot lid in place with the steam valve turned to “sealing.” You pressure cook the sweet potatoes for 15 minutes then allow the steam to release naturally for 10 minutes.
That’s it! Easy peasy!
As I said, I just top my sweet potato with butter and salt, but you may wish to serve them with brown sugar and even a little cinnamon.
Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
Description
Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes are a perfect side dish for chicken, fish, steak, or even as a filling lunch. Making baked sweet potatoes in an Instant Pot saves time and they’re ready in half the time of a conventional oven!
Ingredients
- 6 medium sweet potatoes
- 1 cup water
- Toppings of choice: butter, salt, brown sugar, ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Place the steaming trivet into the Instant Pot.
- Pour 1 cup of water into the bottom of the Instant Pot.
- Place the sweet potatoes into the Instant Pot on top of the steaming trivet.
- Set the Instant Pot to pressure cook for 15 minutes. At the end of the pressure cook time, allow the Instant Pot to release steam naturally for 10 minutes, then carefully turn the valve to release the remaining pressure.
- Open the Instant Pot and use tongs to place the sweet potatoes onto a platter.
Serve the sweet potatoes hot with toppings like butter, salt, brown sugar, and ground cinnamon.
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After you try making sweet potatoes in your Instant Pot, come back and tell me how it went! You can also click here to see this recipe on Pinterest and leave a comment or pictures of your sweet potatoes.
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