This post will teach you How to Make Sweet Potatoes in the Instant Pot, one of the very best side dishes! These Sweet Potatoes are smooth and soft and the perfect hands-off recipe.
I love baked sweet potatoes as absolutely soft and creamy as physically possible. I want my sweet potatoes to fall apart as I’m cutting into them!
This post on How to Make Sweet Potatoes in the Instant Pot fulfills all of my Sweet Potato Requirements! These Sweet Potatoes in the Instant Pot use LARGE sweet potatoes and come out perfect every time.
Lastly this recipe is so helpful and absolutely fantastic when you’ve run out of oven space. You can easily offshore this side dish to the Instant Pot, and have a vegetable ready at the same time as your main course.
Why Make this Recipe
- Save Oven Space: Have you ever wanted to make some dinner AND a side and then you run out of oven space? Don’t forget about Thanksgiving, and trying to have everything on the dinner table all at once…. If you need to have dinner ready quickly, and don’t have time or room to do it all in the oven, these Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes are a GREAT option!
- Fall Apart Every Time: The amount of water and cook time in this recipe is the perfect combo for a fall apart sweet potato EVERY time! You’ll love how soft and smooth these sweet potatoes are!
What Ingredients are In This Recipe?
- Sweet Potatoes: This recipe uses large sweet potatoes. This is very important, as the size of sweet potatoes affects the cook time of the potatoes. See below for further information on cook time. Also make sure to scrub the outside of your sweet potatoes before piercing them with a fork!
How to Make this Recipe
Step 1: Prepare the Sweet Potatoes
Use a fork to pierce the skin of your sweet potatoes.
Put the trivet in the bottom of the Instant Pot, and pour 2 cups of water into the pot.
Step 2: Cook the Sweet Potatoes
Set the timer to HIGH for 31 minutes. When the timer is done, allow for a 10 minute Natural Pressure Release.
Open the Instant Pot and enjoy!
Expert Tips
- Adjust the cook time based off of how large or small your sweet potatoes are. The largest sweet potatoes will take a cook time of 31 minutes. Medium sweet potatoes will take about 26 minutes and small sweet potatoes can be cooked for about 20 minutes.
- If you’d like sweet potatoes that have a little more structure, you can reduce the cook time by about 5-7 minutes per size.
- If you open up the Instant Pot and wish that your sweet potato was cooked a bit more, feel free to put the lid back on the Instant Pot and cook for a few more minutes, depending on how much more cooked you would like them. If you do this, don’t forget to add about 2 cups more water into the Instant Pot, or you will be left with a burn notice (and those are no fun!)
- Sweet potatoes, along with Instant Pot Creamed Corn, are my favorite Thanksgiving sides! Use this recipe to prepare for Thanksgiving 🙂
Recipe FAQs
Do Sweet Potatoes and Regular Potatoes Cook the Same Way in the Instant Pot?
According to this recipe for Instant Pot Baked Potatoes, cooking Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes and Instant Pot Baked Potatoes is fairly similar!
However, if you are making Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes, the method is pretty different. Follow the instructions in the linked recipe to cut up the potatoes and boil them in water in the Instant Pot. This will cook them completely so that you can mash them!
What to Eat this Dish With?
Sweet potatoes are one of my very favorite side dishes, and I love eating them with almost any dish! If you want to make these sweet potatoes as a side dish, these would be some great dishes to try them with:
How to Make Sweet Potatoes in the Instant Pot
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 LARGE sweet potatoes
Instructions
- Use a fork to pierce the skin of your sweet potatoes.
- Put the trivet in the bottom of the Instant Pot, and pour 2 cups of water into the pot.
- Set the timer to HIGH for 31 minutes. When the timer is done, allow for a 10 minute Natural Pressure Release. Open the Instant Pot and enjoy!
Notes
- Sweet Potatoes: This recipe uses large sweet potatoes. This is very important, as the size of sweet potatoes affects the cook time of the potatoes. See below for further information on cook time. Also make sure to scrub the outside of your sweet potatoes before piercing them with a fork!Â
- Adjust the cook time based off of how large or small your sweet potatoes are. The largest sweet potatoes will take a cook time of 31 minutes. Medium sweet potatoes will take about 26 minutes and small sweet potatoes can be cooked for about 20 minutes.
-  If you’d like sweet potatoes that have a little more structure, you can reduce the cook time by about 5-7 minutes per size.Â
- If you open up the Instant Pot and wish that your sweet potato was cooked a bit more, feel free to put the lid back on the Instant Pot and cook for a few more minutes, depending on how much more cooked you would like them. If you do this, don’t forget to add about 2 cups more water into the Instant Pot, or you will be left with a burn notice (and those are no fun!)
Ad says
Actually, it is not necessary to prick holes in the sweet potatoes. I cook them about once a week, so speak from lots of experience.
The Foreign Fork says
Thank you for letting me know! This is just always what my mom taught me, so it’s what I’ve always done! Lol