Servings 2 - 4
Total Time 40 minutes mins
1. Best Pressure Cooking Time: The cooking times are tested in 6qt Instant Pot at Sea Level. Use our time chart as a reference guide. Make sure to adjust according to your texture preference and altitude (see chart).
- Measuring Circumference: Wrap your measuring tape around the whole sweet potatoes once to find the circumference
- Sweet Potatoes with a Circumference of 11 Inches or More: Save time by cutting the sweet potatoes in half (lengthwise) before pressure cooking. This will cut short the pressure cook time from 45 mins to 25 mins!
- Cooking More Sweet Potatoes: If you're pressure cooking more sweet potatoes or using an 8qt Instant Pot, you may need to decrease the pressure cooking time by 1 to 3 minutes depending on how many you're cooking. Make sure not to pack them too tightly and adjust the cooking time accordingly.
- Purple Sweet Potatoes: We briefly tested a few purple sweet potatoes with the cooking time chart and they worked.
2. Piercing the Skin: You don't need to poke the skin before pressure cooking sweet potatoes in Instant Pot.
3. How to Buy Sweet Potatoes
- Size: look for small to medium sweet potatoes
- Weight: feels heavy for their size
- Appearance: skin should be firm, smooth (not highly wrinkled), even-toned, no brown/black discoloration, hydrated, no soft spots, no bruises, not wet, no freshly growing roots or sign of sprouting
4. How to Store Sweet Potatoes
- Cool, Well Ventilated, Dark Place: Try to store sweet potatoes in a loosely covered bag or basket to allow air circulation (e.g. wrap in newspaper or brown paper bags); don't refrigerate because they don't keep well in the fridge.
- Storage Duration (if stored properly):
- Raw Sweet Potatoes: last for about 3 - 5 weeks
- Cooked Sweet Potatoes: last for 7 days in the fridge in a tightly closed container
- Still Good to Eat? You can cut it open and check. If there are no dark brown spots inside the flesh, it should still be good to eat.
5. Sweet Potatoes Toppings Ideas: Butter, salt and pepper, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, honey, maple syrup, sour cream, chives, shredded cheese, Greek yogurt, Jalapenos, pico de gallo + black beans, shredded chicken, bacon + egg + cheese, guacamole.
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Serving: 300g | Calories: 115kcal | Carbohydrates: 26.8g | Protein: 2.1g | Fat: 0.2g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 41mg | Fiber: 3.8g | Sugar: 8.7g