These Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes are an easy side dish for any night of the week! Cooking them in the instant pot can also be a great way to free up oven space during Thanksgiving or Christmas cooking. Steaming potatoes in the instant pot produces a soft skin and a tender bite. Use them anywhere you would use a baked sweet potato or canned sweet potatoes. Read More: Our 27+ Best Instant Pot Recipes
Ingredients in Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes – There are a few different kinds of sweet potato including Japanese sweet potato and purple sweet potatoes. When picking out sweet potatoes, choose small to medium potatoes that have no holes or cracks. The size of your sweet potatoes will determine how long they need to cook to become tender. Water – When you cook any vegetables in the Instant Pot, you use steam. To do this, you need water to create the steam. Place the sweet potatoes on a trivet, steamer basket, or steaming rack above the water for best results. Toppings – When these sweet potatoes come out of the instant pot they are ready to be sliced open and topped with your favorite toppings. You can keep it simple with butter, salt, pepper, and parsley, or try some of our other favorite toppings like sour cream, chives, brown sugar, toasted pecans, mini marshmallows, chili, black beans, or avocado.
How to Use Cooked Sweet Potatoes
Eat them like baked russet potatoes with toppings like butter, sour cream, salt, pepper, and chives. They go great as a side dish with chicken or salmon! Make them sweet by adding marshmallows, brown sugar, and toasted pecans. Remove the skins and mash them to make a sweet potato casserole. Use mashed sweet potato as a substitute for pumpkin puree in pancakes, waffles, and muffins.
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