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Slow-Cooker Sweet Potatoes

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I’m really enjoying my month of crock-pot cooking! It is challenging me to find ways to cook things in the crock pot that I wouldn’t think to slow cook. Case in point: sweet potatoes.

Our garden produced a few hundred pounds of these guys this year, and my kids love them, so we’ve been cooking them pretty often. We’ve fried them in tallow, baked them in the oven and even grilled them on low. The kids love them baked in the oven and topped with butter and salt, but often, we are running errands or working outside, and I forget or don’t have time to throw them in the oven an hour before dinner.

A friend had mentioned cooking sweet potatoes in her crock pot. She might have meant actually peeling, cutting and putting spices on them, but I decided to try it with the whole sweet potatoes…. and it worked…. really well! This is even great if you like sweet potatoes for breakfast because you can cook them overnight. (My kids love this…)

I feel bad even calling this a recipe because it only has one ingredient and one step, but I was excited to be able to cook sweet potatoes in the crock pot and wanted to share in case it is helpful to you!

 

The Ingredient:

-5-6 medium sized sweet potatoes

 

How To Make Crock Pot Sweet Potatoes (Don’t blink or you’ll miss it!):

- Wash sweet potatoes well but don’t dry.

-Put on the bottom of the crock pot, put lid on, and turn on low.

-Cook for 6-7 hours or until tender.

-Serve with butter and salt.

 

Will you try this? What is the easiest thing you’ve ever cooked in a crock pot? Chime in below!

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  • Melissa

    Fabulous idea!!

  • Missy

    It is a fabulous idea.  I just picked some from my garden, and am looking for something pre- morning workout to eat.  Perhaps this will work good?

  • Coyotevick

    I always am nervous about cooking dry things in the crock pot. I know lots of people do it, and I’ve been told it works really well, but it just seems so bizarre to me! But I do love sweet potatoes, maybe I can overcome my fear for them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mandikaake Amanda Kaake

    I’ve done this what sweet potatoes and white potatoes.  It’s my preferred method.  I put 1/4 cup of water in the bottom of the crockpot when cooking mine.  They turn out great every time.

  • Marina Bershadski-Fedorin

    thanks this looks great, I did not know you could do sweet potatoes in a crockpot!  i was wondering if you tried white sweet potatoes in a crock pot? the ones with purple skin? my family prefers those to oranges ones.

  • Anonymous

    Since there are only two in our family, we use the microwave for sweet potatoes. But if I decided to cook several of them I would certainly use the crock pot and I know they would be delicious. I know someone who cooks many sweet potatoes in her crock pot and takes a couple to work to eat at room temp for her lunch. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/michelle.albanese2 Michelle Albanese

    We also grew sweet potatoes this year and I have baskets full and I still have more to dig!! So, I’ll be using this one a lot! I’m a big crock pot cooker! Thanks….

  • Donna

    Wow! So easy and delicious. The skin was easy to peel. I added cinnamon and slow baked pecans.

  • Guest

    Random passer-by here, just wanted to say thanks for the ‘recipe’! We’re new to using the crock pot and happened to be looking for an easy way to prep our sweet potatoes.

    Thank you!

  • Promise311

    Since I found this “recipe” a few months ago, the only way I’ll EVER cook sweet potatoes again is in the crock pot. I’ve also discovered that red and russet potatoes cook better than any other method I know. I use a 1 1/2 quart crock pot because I’m widowed and retired, so it’s just me. I’ve even combined sweet and red potatoes in the same pot… 2 small sweets and 2 or 3 small reds, cook on high for 4 hours and make a meal! Split the potatos open, put on some butter or margerine and a little cinnamon on the sweets, lightly salt and enjoy. I eat the shins of the reds but discard the skins of the sweets unless I can find organic ones (only around Thanksgiving). Also eat the skins on the russets and other white potatoes. Really glad I found this “recipe”!

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  • Christine

    I want to do this while I am at work, but I am afraid of burning. Has anyone left the crock pot alone while they were out?

  • Rachel

    The easiest thing I ever made in the crockpot is applesauce. I wash and core a bunch of organic apples and put them in whole by themselves – no liquid at all. Sprinkle cinnamon over them. Cook on low for a few hours and they’re done. After I lift the lid, I use my potato masher and mash the apples, skin and all and no matter what type of apples I use, they always turn out yummy!

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