Easy Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes is a quick Whole 30 pressure cooker recipe that will teach you how long to cook whole baked sweet potatoes in the Instant Pot. These are perfect for a crowd for holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or even as a lunch or dinner side dish!
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If you love potatoes you will have to try out my Instant Pot Scalloped Potatoes and Instant Pot Chicken Bacon Ranch Potatoes Casserole. These are two of my favorites!
I have had an Instant Pot for well over a year now. I am still tickled by how easy it is to whip up a lot of my favorites.
Baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, pretty much any potato usually takes 45 minutes to an hour to prepare if baking.
I used to wrap up my sweet potatoes in foil and throw them in the oven. The waiting game was insane!
Not because they took a long time to cook, but because I always found myself poking hard potatoes that weren’t finished cooking EVERY time I checked on them.
The Instant Pot has worked wonders for my impatience. I’m still working on it though! 🙂
Recipe Tips
- Cook the sweet potatoes in the Instant Pot for 15 minutes on Manual > High-Pressure Cooking. Allow the steam to naturally release for 10 minutes. Do not perform a quick release.
- You can choose to use a steam rack while cooking, or you can place the sweet potatoes directly in the Instant Pot with water. I prefer to use the trivet that comes with the Instant Pot.
- You can peel the potatoes beforehand or cook them with the skin on. When prepping sweet potatoes as a side dish, I leave the skin on. For mashed sweet potatoes, peel them first.
- One cup of water is needed in the Instant Pot.
- I love to season my sweet potatoes with salt, pepper, brown sugar, and top them with butter
More Instant Pot Recipes:
Instant Pot Pumpkin Spice Sweet Potato Soup
Instant Pot Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Instant Pot Low-Carb Pumpkin Spice Bread
Instant Pot Lasagna
Instant Pot BBQ Pulled Chicken Sandwiches
How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs Using the Instant Pot
Instant Pot Chicken and Spanish Rice (Arroz Con Pollo)
Instant Pot Cheesecake
Instant Pot Chicken Alfredo Spaghetti Squash
Instant Pot Mongolian Beef
Instant Pot Steak Tacos
Instant Pot Chicken Taco Bowl with Quinoa
Instant Pot Buffalo Chicken Pasta
Easy Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes
Instructions
- Wash the sweet potatoes thoroughly.
- Place the trivet (this comes with the Instant Pot) into the bottom of the pot.
- Add the cup of water.
- Place the sweet potatoes on top of the trivet.
- Seal the pot. Cook for 15 minutes on Manual > High Pressure Cooking.
- When the Instant Pot indicates it has finished, do not quick release the steam. Allow the steam to release naturally for 10 minutes.
- Open the pot and remove the sweet potatoes with tongs.
- Allow the potatoes to cool.
- Slice them in half and serve them up with your favorite toppings!
Shannon
Sunday 25th of July 2021
I needed to make some sweet potatoes for cat. I know, weird. I came here to get the basics on cooking them quick! Can’t wait to make them for myself!!
staysnatched
Tuesday 3rd of August 2021
Wonderful! I'm glad they were a hit!
Jenn
Wednesday 22nd of August 2018
Totally trying this tomorrow with the sweet potatoes I just bought! Perfecto!
Wilhelmina Wessel
Wednesday 22nd of August 2018
You can't go wrong with sweet potatoes!
Rachel
Monday 20th of August 2018
This looks great! Do the sweet potatoes have to all be the same size for the timing to be right?
staysnatched
Monday 20th of August 2018
Mine were all different sizes and works with the timing I suggested.