Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes

Cooked sweet potatoes in an Instant Pot, split open and topped with butter and fresh herbs.

Cook whole sweet potatoes quickly and easily in your Instant Pot. Perfectly tender, cooking these in your pressure cooker is a great option when you need to get dinner on the table in a hurry, and it's a bonus that you don't have to turn your oven on!

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword how to cook sweet potatoes in an Instant Pot, pressure cooker sweet potatoes, Quick sweet potato recipe

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 15

Natural release 10

Total Time 30

Servings servings

Calories 194kcal

Author Tanya

Ingredients

1 cup water
4-6 sweet potatoes

Instructions

Place water and sweet potatoes in Instant Pot (Pressure Cooker) insert. Cook on high pressure from anywhere between 15-25 minutes according to the size as noted below. Allow to naturally release for 10 minutes, then quick release any remaining pressure.
Top with your favorite toppings or mash it for any given recipe.

Cooking Times for Sweet Potatoes

Small sweet potatoes (6-9oz) - 15 minutes
Medium sweet potatoes (9-12oz) - 20 minutes
Large sweet potatoes - (12-16 oz) - 30 minutes

Notes

Your pressure cooker will take about 15 minutes to reach pressure before the cook time begins.
If your sweet potatoes are cooked to your liking following the time, just cover the pressure cooker again and add an additional 5-10 minutes. Your pressure cooker will come to pressure in about 2 minutes in this instance.

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