Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Casserole with just a handful of ingredients. You’ll have a tasty side dish with little effort and free oven space!
This Casserole made in the slow cooker on Thanksgiving will not only free up your oven, but give you more time to spend with the ones you love. If you have more than one slow cooker, you can also make Slow Cooker Green Bean Casserole while your turkey and Broccoli Casserole cook in the oven.
Sabrina’s Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Thanksgiving is the best time of year to have all of your family gathered around the table. It is a holiday probably more than any other where the oven space is NEVER enough. This recipe made in a slow cooker so inexpensive. I would argue it is even less expensive than the dish you’d normally serve your sweet potatoes in.
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Ingredients
- 3 pounds sweet potatoes , peeled and cut into 2 inch chunks
- 1/2 cup butter , melted
- 1/2 cup brown sugar , divided
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Toss the sweet potatoes with the butter, half the brown sugar, Kosher salt, orange juice and vanilla extract in the slow cooker.
- Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours.
- Either mash the potatoes or using an immersion blender to smooth the potatoes out.
- Top with the rest of the brown sugar and pecans and serve.
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Chef’s Note
Can you make this dish with canned sweet potatoes? Yes, I suppose you could, but honestly the flavors aren’t going to be anywhere as fresh. PLUS, it is literally peel and chop instead of open the can and strain. No extra cooking time is needed at all.
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About this Recipe
This Sweet Potato Casserole is a set-it-and-forget-it dish you can even serve WITHOUT mashing. Yes, that’s right, if you want, you can cook the chunks, stir once halfway through cooking, then just add the topping and serve!
How to Store
- Serve: Don’t leave your casserole out at room temperature for longer than 2 hours at room temperature.
- Store: As long as you keep it in a sealable container or plastic wrap, the casserole will stay good for up to 4 days.
- Freeze: You can keep your casserole in the freezer for up to 3 months. Make sure to place it into an airtight container to prevent freezer burn.
Ideas to Serve
Crockpot Candied Sweet Potatoes aren’t a difficult dish to make and there isn’t just one way to serve them. Here are a few ideas:
- Serve in chunks and skip the puréeing. Top with brown sugar and pecans.
- Top with a streusel topping – you can use the one from my Pumpkin Pie Streusel Pie.
- Top with marshmallows then brown under the broiler for 30 seconds (make sure slow cooker insert can take that heat) or use a small kitchen torch to brown.
Baked Cooking Method
- Using the same ingredients, toss them together in a 9×13 pan and cook at 375 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
- Top with brown sugar and pecans and serve.
Variations
- Seasonings: To add some extra flavor to the sweet potato mixture, you can add your favorite spices. A teaspoon of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice are all classic holiday ingredients that would taste amazing in Sweet Potato Casserole.
- Marshmallow Topping: Some people like their sweet potato casseroles with a marshmallow topping instead of pecan streusel. First, bake the casserole without any topping. Then sprinkle miniature marshmallows over the top and pop it back in the oven for about a minute until the marshmallows are golden brown.
- Nuts: You can also add other kinds of nuts to the crunchy pecan topping. Chopped walnuts, almonds, or hazelnuts would also taste great over the casserole.
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Thanks for your recipes. I do not buy butter and wonder in this recipe if I could substitute olive oil.
Your recipes are wonderful thanks for sharing
can you make this a day or two ahead of time?
You could prep it ahead, I wouldn’t cook it ahead, it would dry out.
Nice and simple to make, but even on low setting it was done in only 2 hours. 2 hours before my company was to arrive. It also wasn’t as sweet as I expected so I added more brown sugar until it was to my sweet tooth’s liking. Also added a bit more butter since it got thick prettying fast-just to keep it going till people showed up. Taste was awesome once I added the extra brown sugar.
Thanks for coming back to let me know, Dana.
Hi, I like your cooker sweet potatoes. Can I use this receipe in a 6 quart
Cooker?
Certainly 🙂 And so glad you like them!
Could you use canned yams instead of sweet potatoes? I have a sweet potato praline recipe that uses canned yams and would like to try something similar in the crockpot to free up oven space.
Sure 🙂
I’ll make this again. It was a hit! Freeing up oven space was a bonus:)
Yay!! Juggling oven time is always one of the biggest stressors of holiday cooking.
This looks so tasty delicious, can’t wait to make this for Thanksgiving to.
Such a great dish for a Thanksgiving meal! Enjoy!!
The picture doesn’t seem to match the recipe on the sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving it has green chunks in it and a white powder on the top nothing in the recipe are those colors
The green that you see is parsely and is completely optional. I think the “white powder” you’re referring to is brown sugar which is in the recipe. I hope you enjoy it. 🙂
This casserole is calling my name!
This is definitely a holiday favorite!!!
Definitely and the holidays are coming up fast!
Love anything sweet potato! Yummy!
Sweet potato casserole is my favorite Thanksgiving side dish!!
Enjoy!!
My family is obsessed with sweet potatoes, so they’ll love this version!
Perfect!
Love that this is made in the slow cooker! This will be a great side for Thanksgiving!
Thanks, Erin! The slow cooker is so helpful especially during the holidays.
Oh yes…the perfect side dish for the upcoming holidays!
Definitely!