Name: Perfect and Creamy Instant Pot Sweet Potato
Prep time: 3 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 23 min
Ingredients: 2 large sweet potatoes; 1 cup water; Salt and pepper for seasoning; 1 tablespoon butter cubes; Parsley for garnish; Or; Spicy roasted chickpeas; Walnut pesto; Parsley for garnish

Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes gives you perfect cooked, fluffy and creamy potatoes every time. Mash with cube of butter, load them up with your favorite fillings for a healthy meal or simply serve it up as side dish. Either way, it’s PERFECT!

Whip up perfectly cooked instant pot sweet potatoes in 20 minutes. Just cook whole sweet potatoes in pressure cooker and serve, easy peasy. This recipe couldn’t be simpler! So go grab your instant, we are about to make favorite fall food recipe.

Mash sweet potato and serve as side dish for thanksgiving, or make sweet potato casserole. A darn healthy side dish isn’t it! Simply toss potatoes in pot and wait for the magic to unfold.

Many of my blog visitors jumped on to me saying “you don’t have to make everything in instant pot. Definitely not those recipes which can easily be made on stove top!” To them I reply saying, yes of course certain recipes can be conveniently made on stove top.

Why shouldn’t I be using instant pot for those recipes when I know the fact that my cooking time is going to reduce to almost half in instant pot.

The best thing about instant pot unlike other traditional pressure cooker, you can set it and walk away to finish my other chores! That to me is convenient cooking. So why not!

When life gets busy, it’s time to grab instant pot, to make quick and easy meals! It’s time to make sweet potato and load with your favorite stuffing.

Sweet potato instant pot not just cooks sweet potatoes perfect fluffy and creamy, they cook much faster. If you tired of soggy sweet potatoes, cooking sweet potato instant pot is your solution to the problem. Depending on the size of sweet potatoes you use, you’ll need somewhere between 11 minutes to 22 minutes.

Smaller thinner potatoes need lesser time, around 8-10 minutes.

Medium sized potatoes will need approximately 15-16 minutes.

Large sized potatoes I would set timer to 17-20 minutes.

What You Need For This Recipe

Sweet potatoes – scrubbed and cleaned well.

Instant pot – we used 6 Qt Duo Plus Instant Pot.

Trivet – a trivet ring or steamer basket to place sweet potatoes.

Water – to help steam sweet potatoes.

Wooden Spoon with long handle – to help carefully remove steamed sweet potatoes from the pot.

Your favorite stuffing – you can eat mashed sweet potatoes as it is with bit of butter with salt and pepper or you can stuff with your favorite stuffing. We are thinking BBQ chicken (shredded), roasted chickpeas with pesto, or simply maple syrup, cinnamon powder, ginger powder and pepper.

How to Use Sweet Potato Instant Pot

Use this method to cook sweet potato instant pot to make purees, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole or whip up creamy sweet potato soup with your favorite spices. Or use these mashes sweet potato for meal prep, like recipes breakfast burritos, sweet potato hummus, that goes in meal prep boxes.

If you want to make mashed potatoes, cook sweet potato in instant pot following the recipe. Peel skin off ,mash.Viola!

How to Cook Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes

Cooking sweet potatoes in instant pot couldn’t be any simpler than this.

First scrub sweet potatoes and clean it with water.

Then go grab your instant pot, pour a cup of water into the pot.

Place the steamer trivet inside the pot. No need to wrap these potatoes inside aluminium foil. One less step!

Place sweet potatoes on the trivet.

Close lid ensuring pressure valve in on the SEALING position.

Select HIGH PRESSURE setting. Set timer to 12 minutes to 20 minutes depending on the size of the sweet potatoes you use.

Wait for 5 minutes for NATURAL release. Then turn valve to VENTING position for QUICK release. Carefully unlock and remove the lid from the instant pot.

Gently remove sweet potatoes from the pot onto a plate.

Mash potato.

Stuff with your favorite stuffing, or eat them with a bit of salt, pepper and butter. Below is Spicy Roasted Chickpeas stuffing with Basil Walnut Pesto drizzle on top.