Sweet Potatoes in Slow Cooker (or Instant Pot!) (2024)

Do you add water to the crockpot? I’d love to do this! Love sweet potatoes!

I can’t wait to try this. I’ve noticed that some sweet potatoes are sweeter than others…do you know whic variety is sweeter or how to choose the sweetest?

I love making a bit batch of sweet potatoes on Sunday and then having them for breakfast through the week but never thought to use the slow cooker (which is great since who wants to run the oven in this heat?). Quick question – do you need to poke holes in them first? Thanks!

I <3 sweet potatoes! What a great way to make them - I'm going to do it right now. When I make them in the oven, I add olive oil and pepper, and a little salt so the skins are all crunchy and delicious. Can I do that in the slow cooker as well? Thanks so much!

I would love crock pot recipies, anything meatless.

Does this work for regular potatos as well?

Love the idea but these are yams in the picture, not sweet potatoes.

It says in the recipe all you need is to rinse the potatoes, but do not dry them. That is all the moisture you need. Potatoes have a lot of water in them, so liquid eeks out and the potatoes will steam in it.

These are Sweet Potatoes in the picture!
Yams are a version of cooked sweet potatoes.
Hence the term “candied yams” they are basically one and the same.

Slow cooking in the crock pot will not produce a crunchy skin. This method steams the potatoes in their own juices.

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Do you poke them with a fork all around like when baking in the oven?

Popular in the American South, these yellow or orange tubers are elongated with ends that taper to a point and are of two dominant types. The paler-skinned sweet potato has a thin, light yellow skin with pale yellow flesh which is not sweet and has a dry, crumbly texture similar to a white baking potato. The darker-skinned variety (which is most often called “yam” in error) has a thicker, dark orange to reddish skin with a vivid orange, sweet flesh and a moist texture.

The paler-skinned sweet potato has a thin, light yellow skin with pale yellow flesh which is not sweet and has a dry, crumbly texture similar to a white baking potato. The darker-skinned variety (which is most often called “yam” in error) has a thicker, dark orange to reddish skin with a vivid orange, sweet flesh and a moist texture.

Thanks Kyra!

No holes needed! Just wash them and stick them in. So easy!

Its true. The skins are so soft they practically melt off which is a great way for kids to eat them 🙂

You don’t need to poke with a fork before cooking. The steam releases slower and it will not explode 🙂

My crockpot has a High & Low setting. I can program it to cook for as long as as I want. Would it be 6 hours on High? Thank you!

The recipe specifies the low setting.

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Sounds good but have you ever peeled the sweet potatoes, cut in 2inch cubes … Put in large
Baking pan drizzle Olive oil over the potatoes?
Sprinkle Seasalt .. bake
in 410 degree oven for 25 min or till golden brown & soft to eat…delicious!

I agree!!

This is really nice topic, which is very useful for me.

Nice post, fully informative thanks for sharing

Yep!

I don’t like sweet potatoes too much. But my Granny got me to eat then this one way. She would clean and rub them in oil and bake them until the outside skin is crispy and the flesh was mush! Then she would smother them with real butter, salt and pepper and serve them with pork chops! I loved the butter in the sweet flesh with the pork! And the crispy skin was good with a little extra butter! 😉 I bet these would be good served the same way!

I don’t have a good scrubber for the potatoes, if I peeled them would it be OK in the slow cooker?

I make mine in a microwave. Just prick them with a fork, put in a ziplock microwaveable plastic bag and cook them for about 10-12 min on hight. They’re perfect with garlic Greek yogurt

The food products we get now is not good for health. But still we are forced to buy these things because of no other alternatives. The recipe you have shared here seems to be good. Anyways I’m going to try this. Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe.

Sounds delicious!

It would probably work – they might be more mushy because more water would leach out. I would say worth a try!

This looks great; can’t wait to try it out this coming week. 🙂

Sweet potatoes are a staple at my house. This is an old post, but wanted to share. Not only do we love them, my dogs love them too. They are a great diet food. We have boiled , baked. microwaved, but never slow cooked. I will try this. My daughter puts brown sugar and butter on hers. I sometimes cut them in rounds and caramelize with brown sugar and butter on the stove top in an iron skillet. Super food!

Brilliant idea! I need to try this!

Always looking for new recipes and foods to cook. Am having a blast with my wife’s Ninja Slow Cooker/Oven. 82 yrs. old and just now getting into cooking!!

This morning was the first day of farmers market here in my home town of Longview, Tx. Its my favorite time of year because all the locals come out and you get the freshest produce that you can find year round. I bought a huge thing of sweet potatoes for 5 dollars and couldn’t wait to get busy eating them. I found your post through pintrest. I have a birthday party to go to at 3 so this was a no brainer to try out. In my other slow cooker I put in some bbq chicken thighs to go with it. When I get home I’ll make some fresh garlic green beans to round out this effortless dinner! I cant wait! Thanks for the post!!!

Can you stack them up (I have 8 to cook) or do they have to all fit on the bottom of the crockpot?

Thanks for the tip. I did this for a Japanese sweet potato which has a little thicker skin but it still was perfect! I did add a cup of water since the sweet potato didn’t produce any moisture on its own and started to look a little too dry. Really want to thank you again. You saved me from using the oven during the California summer.

Sorry, but when I tried this recipe,the potatoes tasted disgusting! Total waste. Could not eat. I fed it to my dogs.

I cook eight sweet potatoes at a time in the slow cooker. Then peel, mash, and add coconut oil, salt, and cinnamon. We eat them cold—as a creamy, pudding-like dessert! You can top your “pudding “ with toasted walnuts or pecans.

Awesome

I have never tried sweet potatoes. But it seems delicious

I cooked sweet potatoes in my crockpot and they were awful, tasted like dirt because they took on the taste of peel.

I never tried sweet potato. But like it

This is a great article on the true difference between a sweet potato and a yam.

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This looks great; can’t wait to try it out this coming week.

yams and sweet potatoes are not the same but pretty much cook the same thanks

I’ve used this recipe multiple times and never disappointed. So delicious!!

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