Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes

Sweet and tender sweet potatoes are easy to make in the instant pot!

An entire 3 pound bag sweet potatoes (yams) can be steamed in the instant pot. Perfect for a healthy snack, baby food, or even frozen to eat later!

The Instant Pot, an electric pressure cooker, can cook an entire bag of sweet potatoes with the press of a few buttons.

I bought this three pound bag of organic sweet potatoes at Trader Joes for $3.99. I find that these are consistently sweet and tender (without stringy fibers).

I soaked them in water to get the dirt off the skins, followed by a good scrub.

After putting in the metal trivet into the instant pot, one cup of water goes in. The sweet potatoes are then layered on top.

I pressed the manual setting, then adjusted the time to 10 minutes.

Piping hot and tender sweet potatoes now ready! I removed the skins so you can see how delicious they are! To make baby food, just remove all the skins, and smash it with a spoon.

A whole bag of sweet potatoes may take a while to finish, so they can be frozen for later. I took the skins off the sweet potatoes that I wanted to freeze, then put them on a tray lined with plastic saran wrap without touching each other. I put them into the freezer overnight, then into a ziplock bag and stored in the freezer.

Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes