Name: How to Cook Sweet Potatoes {Electric Pressure Cooker}
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 16 min
Total time: 21 min
Ingredients: 6 medium/large sweet potatoes; 1 cup water; Toppings: Brown Sugar (Butter, Cinnamon)

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Are you looking for Instant Pot Recipes or great dishes for your electric pressure cooker? If you are wondering how to cook sweet potatoes in an electric pressure cooker, this is the recipe for you!

How to Cook Sweet Potatoes in an Instant Pot

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As promised, we are slowly adding Instant Pot/Electric Pressure Cooker recipes to the site as we test them. But as always, we are making sure that every Electric Pressure Cooker Recipe we share has a Crock Pot Version available. If you are looking for a slow cooker version of this recipe, please see our Crock Pot Sweet Potatoes.

Instant Pot vs. Other Electric Pressure Cookers

(Updated 7/2/19)

We have found that all of our electric pressure cookers tend to cook similarly and we highly recommend them all. Currently we have the following Electric Pressure Cookers working in our test kitchen:

Instant Pot (6 quart) – Stainless Steel Pot
Crock Pot Express (6 quart)- Non-Stick Pot
Ninja Foodi (6.5 quart)- Non-Stick Pot, Air Fryer Built In
Ninja Foodi (8 quart)- Non-Stick Pot, Air Fryer Built In

While all our units pressure cook great, some units come with non-stick coating and others come with stainless steel pots. If an electric pressure cooker is a long term investment for you, this may be a major consideration. Once the non-stick coating scratches the pot insert will have to be replaced. We have already had to replace one of our Foodi pots due to a very unfortunate mashed potato incident. While the stainless steel pots may be a bit more of a pain in the short term, they may pay off in the long term. We have found our stainless steel pots easily clean up with a little bit of Bar Keepers Friend.

However, if you are in the market for an air fryer too, you might consider the units that come with air fryers built in. Despite the non-stick pots, we LOVE the Ninja Foodi because it has an incredible air fryer built into the unit. We love having one unit that can do so many things well.

Electric Pressure Cooker Sweet Potatoes Recipe Notes:

My potatoes we pretty large– but not the jumbo ones you sometimes find at the grocery store. If you are using really large sweet potatoes, you will want to increase your time.
I cooked these on the vegetable setting for 16 minutes and then used quick release. You can also cook on manual high pressure for 16 minutes with quick release. Regardless what you choose, turn off the warming setting and remove from heat immediately.
If you are using an 8-quart Instant Pot, you may need to use a half cup more liquid to make sure your Instant Pot will come up to pressure.
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All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes should always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.

Electric Pressure Cooker Sweet Potatoes Recipe