Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes

by Sabrina Snyder

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5 from 8 votes
6 servings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours
Total Time 3 hours 5 minutes
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Slow Cooker Baked Sweet Potatoes are a perfect, easy, holiday side dish your guests will love and it only takes a minute of prep work!

We love serving this during the holidays with Roasted Turkey, Green Bean Casserole and Macaroni and Cheese. Or if you’re all about starches, add Mashed Potatoes on the side too!

Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes

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.

Most people end up using up valuable oven space baking the potatoes when they could be multitasking with other recipes. Plus, if you use your slow cooker (crockpot), you can keep the potatoes warm, so they are perfect for a buffet spread, too.

It’s fall, which means peak season for sweet potatoes has begun. Because you know I love my crock pot recipes (and you do too!), it only seemed right to share one of the easiest ways to serve potatoes using one.

In fact, you know how much we love our crock pot. I have a list of delicious holiday options for you to make in your crockpot. Most people aren’t as obsessed as me, but I have a closet full of crock pots.

How do you make the potatoes in a crock pot?

First, wash and scrub the sweet potatoes to remove any residual dirt on the skin. Using a fork, poke holes all over the potatoes and then wrap them in foil. Place them in the slow cooker and cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.

How to make potatoes in the oven?

Use the exact instructions as above, but place the cookies on a baking sheet and bake them in the oven at 350 degrees for 1 – 1 ½ hours.

Candied Sweet Potatoes

  • If you want to make mashed sweet potatoes using this recipe no need for them to be peeled, just cut the cooked sweet potatoes in half and scoop out the potato flesh into a dish.
  • In a medium saucepan, warm up the butter and brown sugar mixture and pour over the sweet potatoes and mash using a masher or hand mixer.
  • To make a sweet potato casserole, add a streusel topping 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 at the end.

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 sweet potatoes gluten-free?

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

Crockpot Sweet Potatoes

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Slow Cooker Baked Sweet Potatoes

Slow Cooker Baked Sweet Potatoes are a perfect, easy, holiday side dish your guests will love and it only takes a minute of prep work!
Yield 6 servings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours
Total Time 3 hours 5 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes
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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: 161kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 2g | Sodium: 103mg | Potassium: 634mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 26720IU | Vitamin C: 4.5mg | Calcium: 56mg | Iron: 1.2mg

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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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