Can you make Instant Pot sweet potatoes? When we first got a pressure cooker, we wondered whether our favorite root vegetable would work in this contraption. We threw in the raw veggie…and poof! Out came perfectly moist sweet potatoes with little effort and faster than an oven! The pressure cooker is now our go to method for cooking whole sweet potatoes. Here’s how to make Instant Pot sweet potatoes (scroll down for the recipe).
Why make Instant Pot sweet potatoes
We were on the fence for years about the Instant Pot. Until one day, a friend mentioned you can make Instant pot sweet potatoes much faster than baking them. Once we tried it, we were sold! We’ve been cooking up healthy recipes with our Instant Pot ever since. Cooking sweet potatoes in an electric pressure cooker has a few advantages over baking them in the oven:
It’s faster. Baking sweet potatoes takes about 1 hour with preheat time. A pressure cooker takes 35 minutes total!They come out perfectly cooked. Instant Pot sweet potatoes come out with a perfectly moist, velvety interior. It’s totally hands off. Cooking sweet potatoes in a pressure cooker is totally hands off! Baking requires more steps (rubbing with oil and salt and pepper, checking for doneness, etc).
How to make Instant Pot sweet potatoes
What’s the total time for pressure cooker sweet potatoes? The total time for this recipe is 35 minutes. That’s pretty good compared to about 1 hour for baked sweet potatoes. (Though, we do have a time-saving trick for making a quick baked sweet potato!) Here’s how to make sweet potatoes in an Instant Pot:
A note on potato size
A final note: the timing for how to cook sweet potatoes in an Instant Pot does depend on the size of the potatoes. This recipe is for medium to large potatoes, about 10 to 12 ounces each. For very large sweet potatoes, use about 18 minutes. Smaller potatoes could use less time, about 14 minutes.
Ways to serve them
How can you serve Instant Pot sweet potatoes? Let us count the ways! We created our sweet potatoes with Thai peanut butter sauce recipe especially for the pressure cooker method, and we get lots of messages on Instagram and from readers that they love it! Here are our three favorite ideas:
On Instant Pot brands
An Instant Pot is basically a programmable pressure cooker. The concept is to cook foods at high pressure, which dramatically cuts down on cooking time. The one we have is Instant Pot brand: here’s the Instant Pot we have. This recipe is customized for a 6 quart pressure cooker. We also can’t speak to other brands and types of pressure cookers. For example, Instant Pot Mini works differently, so use it at your own risk.
More Instant Pot recipes
There are so many ways to use an Instant pot: you can make rice, quinoa, dried beans, dried chickpeas, mashed potatoes, soups, and more! Here are some of our favorites:
Try basics like Refried Beans, Lentils, Lentils and Rice, Quinoa, Hard Boiled Eggs, or How to Cook Rice: White Rice & Brown RiceMake a pot of Instant Pot Spaghetti or Creamy Instant Pot PastaTry Instant Pot Tacos with Smoky LentilsGo for Instant Pot Wild Rice Soup
This Instant pot sweet potatoes recipe is…
This Instant Pot sweet potatoes recipe is vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free, naturally sweet, and refined sugar-free. 5 from 1 review
