Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes

by Sabrina Snyder

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5 servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 10 minutes
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Slow Cooker Baked Sweet Potatoes are a perfect, easy, holiday side dish your guests will love. They only take a few minutes of prep work!

Sweet Potatoes are the perfect Side Dish to serve during the Holidays. They are easy to make and free up the oven for more delicious recipes like Potatoes Au Gratin and Honey Glazed Carrots.

Sabrina’s Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Recipe

Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes are an easy, sweet, and savory side dish for your dinner table. With so many delicious ways to serve them, this will quickly become one of your go-to recipes.

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Slow Cooker Baked Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Slow Cooker Baked Sweet Potatoes are a perfect, easy, holiday side dish your guests will love. They only take a few minutes of prep work!
Yield 5 servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 10 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
Baked sweet potato topped with butter and brown sugar in foil packet.
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Ingredients
 

  • 5 medium sweet potatoes
  • 1 cup water

Instructions

  • Wash and scrub the sweet potato well and using a fork, poke holes all over each potato.
  • Dip each potato in the water and wrap with foil (dipping in water before wrapping will help prevent sticking to the foil.)
  • Put them in the slow cooker and cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.

Nutrition

Calories: 194kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 0.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.04g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.03g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.002g | Sodium: 127mg | Potassium: 762mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 32063IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 69mg | Iron: 1mg

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Sabrina’s Tips

If you’re serving a large crowd, you can follow this same recipe to make multiple sweet potatoes. However, you will be limited based on how large your slow cooker is. Make sure you have enough room to lay the potatoes in a single layer; if they’re piled on top of each other they won’t cook properly.

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About this Recipe

Fall is peak season for sweet potatoes and this easy-to-make recipe will have you enjoying them throughout the Holidays. Most people end up using up valuable oven space baking the potatoes when they could be multitasking with other recipes. By using your slow cooker, you can keep the potatoes warm, perfect for a buffet spread.

Can this be made ahead of time?

You can prep a baked potato side dish by washing the potatoes the night before, but wait to cook them until the day you’re serving them. To keep them fresh, don’t wash the potatoes more than a day or two in advance.

Pairing Suggestions

I love serving this during the holidays paired with roasted turkey, Green Bean Casserole, and Macaroni and Cheese. If you’re all about starches, you can add mashed potatoes on the side too!

How to Store

  • Serve: Potatoes can be at room temperature for up to 2 hours before they should be refrigerated. 
  • Store: Cool potatoes before storing. Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
  • Freeze: Once potatoes are cooled, wrap in aluminum foil and store in a freezer safe container.

Ideas to Serve

One of my favorite ways to serve potatoes is setting up a potato bar. Set up the toppings and let your guest decide whether they want a more sweet or savory flavor. Here are some topping ideas to try.

  • Browned Butter or Olive Oil
  • Cinnamon or Paprika
  • Sour Cream and Chives
  • Brown Sugar and Pecans
  • Mini Marshmallows
  • Honey or Maple Syrup
  • Black Beans and Salsa or Chopped Onion

Baking Method

You can also bake the sweet potatoes in the oven, if you like. Use the exact instructions included here, but place the potatoes on a baking sheet and bake them at 350 degrees for 1-to-1 ½ hours. You can test for doneness by inserting a fork and if it it goes in easily then the sweet potatoes are tender and cooked through.

Frequent Questions

Are sweet potatoes healthier than white potatoes?

Both have their benefits, but sweet potatoes lead by providing more Vitamin A and C, fewer calories and carbs, and more fiber than their white potato counterparts.

Are the potatoes gluten-free?

Yes. Gluten is a protein found in grains, and since potatoes aren’t grains, they are gluten-free.

Variations

  • Candied Sweet Potatoes: Cut the cooked potatoes in half and scoop out the potato flesh into a dish. Warm butter and brown sugar in a medium saucepan. Pour over the potatoes and mash them using a masher or hand mixer.
  • Sweet Potato Casserole: To make a potato casserole, add a streusel topping over the mash and press mini marshmallows on top. Place in the oven for 10-15 minutes. To toast the marshmallows, place them under a broiler for 1 minute.

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Sweet Potatoes in a crock pot with foil

About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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  1. Great tasting and so many ways to dress up! Love that it frees oven and in warmer weather don’t need oven! Use lots of your recipes. Thanks.

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  2. Hi Sabrina, I have a question on the 1 cup of water: Do you put the 1 cup of water in the crock pot, then the wrapped in foil sweet potatoes on top? I saw the ingredient listing of water but it was not in the instructions. I did it for 1 1/2 hrs. without the water and I smelled a burnish aroma, so I quickly added the 1 cup of water to the crock pot. FYI: I used high heat setting.

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  3. Love this. I’ve been wanting to try russet potatoes in the crockpot, for my family, but I also kinda like sweet potato better. I had heard of doing white potatoes in the slow cooker so I looked up if you could do it with sweet potato. That’s how I found this recipe and I’m so excited I did. I tried it out last night. I did both sweet potatoes and russets, and they both turned out awesome. I’ve never been able to make a good sweet potato until now, and it was so darn easy. The sweet potato was perfectly cooked, after eight hours on low. Very soft, and bright orange. Really smooth, and perfectly sweet. Absolutely perfect. My family loved the russets too but I think sweet potato is where it’s at lol

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  4. I will definitely try them but what you picture are not sweet poratoes which are lighter and more fiberous than yams which is what is pictured and what I prefer. Many times this mistake is made. Yams are what is usually meant when saying sweet potatoes. Just FYI.

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