Simplest Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes
Incredibly easy Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes are the perfect side to any dinner! Just scrub clean, poke a few times with a fork or knife and into the slow cooker those whole sweet potatoes go! And then you get to come home to perfectly baked sweet potatoes for dinner!
Baked whole sweet potatoes…without turning your oven on…
I love using oven baked sweet potatoes as a jumping off point for dinners, but sometimes (okay, all the time) I don’t have the hour or so it takes to cook them on a Tuesday night. Mama is HUNGRY! And I have a hungry, impatient kiddo in the wings. GIVE ME MY DINNER! So, needless to say, when I figured out that I could cook up my sweet potatoes in my beloved slow cooker….life got a little less stressful and dinner time got a little easier.
Cooking a whole sweet potato in your slow cooker is *truly* the easiest of things. You scrub those potatoes clean. Give them a few jabs with a knife or fork (so the steam can escape the potato during the cooking process), load them into your slow cooker, turn on the slow cooker….and walk away. That is it. Truly. I almost feel a bit silly writing a “recipe”, but I also know people like having a reference for kitchen matters, so I got you. 😙
If you are NOT a morning person like myself and can’t possibly tackle *thinking* about the happenings of dinner before work, you can also make life and dinner equally easy by cooking your whole sweet potatoes in your Instant Pot. Both methods work like a dream for getting those sweet potatoes cooked without having to start dinner at 4pm.
Simplest Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 4 medium sweet potatoes
Instructions
- Wash your sweet potatoes really well. Those little buggers can be quite dirty, so really scrub them clean. And leave them wet. Not dripping wet, just however wet they are from washing them. The moisture will help in the cooking process.
- Using a knife or fork, puncture the skin of the clean sweet potatoes multiple times. Don’t go crazy, but if you’ve had a rough day, feel free to take it out on your potatoes. Just try to leave the potatoes in one piece after you’re done.
- Arrange the sweet potatoes in your slow cooker in a single layer. This is a great opportunity to put those Tetris skills from your youth to good use in this practical, very adult manner (and your mom said you’d never learn anything form video games).
- Cook on low for 6-7 hours or high for 3-4 hours. Since every slow cooker cooks *a bit* differently, you’ll know your sweet potatoes are done when you can easily puncture the skin of the potato with a fork
- Once done, remove the potatoes from your slow cooker and enjoy warm. Or let them cook completely and store in your fridge in an air tight container for up to4 days for future recipes (like these sweet potato peanut butter muffins!)
Notes
- If your slow cooker is smaller, you might have to adjust how many potatoes you use based on the size of your slow cooker.
- Wash your sweet potatoes really well.
- If you prefer to cook on low, you will need to wait for 6-7 hours as opposed to 3-4 hours on high.
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I love making sweet potatoes in the crockpot! I’m with you, slow cooking rocks! 🙂
My poor slow cooker works overtime each week! I’m surprised it’s still kicking after all the abuse I’ve put it through!
So easy and a total game changer for getting potatoes onto the weeknight dinner table
I thought we couldn’t eat black beans on the whole30 plan??
You are correct, you cannot have black beans on Whole30. This recipe is for the sweet potatoes (which you can have) and I simply staged the black beans in the photo and/or offered them as a suggestion as something that might be good on top of the sweet potatoes.
I love sweet potatoes and this is the best way to cook them. Taesha is brilliant!
Oh my gosh, way to make me blush! 😂💚 I’m so glad you love this little slow cooker trick as much as I do. Thanks for such a sweet comment!