Instant Pot Sweet Potato Casserole

Easy sweet potato casserole in Instant Pot for a Thanksgiving side dish is delicious topped with pecans or toasted marshmallows. If you want homemade vs. our Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe with Canned Yams, this is a winner!

Looking for a yummy new side dish? Try this Instant Pot sweet potato casserole, it is to die for. We are always coming up with new Instant Pot recipes for dinner but now that the holidays are getting closer we’re adding our favorite traditional dishes too so take a look. (affiliate links present)

Ninja Foodi Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe

You don’t have to have an IP brand name either. If you have the dual machine too you can make it as a great Ninja Foodi recipe too and you can brown the top at the end with it with that one! Use the lid that is not attached for these directions.

Want to keep them together more and not smashed? You can add the same brown sugar and sweets on top of your Instant Pot sweet potatoes cubed too if you’d rather. We have all the choices here because that’s what we do.

Ingredients

• Sweet potatoes medium sizes are best
• Brown sugar for sweetness
• Sugar we like too
• Heavy cream is better than milk to thicken
• Melted butter or dairy free alternative works
• Flour to thicken a bit
• Eggs at room temperature
• Some like a drizzle of maple syrup
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans are great on top of the mixture – I like honey roasted pecans

Equipment Needed

You will need an oven safe 24 inch casserole dish to make this since it is using the pot in pot technique. That means you are essentially steaming the contents, not in the actual pot itself or it will burn. And of course your IP, a masher and a trivet.

Variations and Substitutions

You can leave the nuts off if you don’t like them or have a nut allergy and it will be just as good. As far as the sweeteners you could opt for sugar-free alternatives if need be. you can even make this as a purple sweet potato recipe for an added wow.

How to Make Sweet Potato Casserole in a Pressure Cooker

You will make pressure cooker sweet potatoes first to get started on this, unless you are mashing a can of yams. You want the insides to be super tender to scoop out. Use any brand of pressure cooker you have. As long as it has the high pressure function and is electric the directions will work the same.

1. Pour 1.5 cups of water inside your pressure cooker
2. Place the vegetable steamer basket inside and open it up
3. Put sweet potatoes on top like you see here
4. Close your lid and steam valve
5. Set to high pressure for 22 minutes
6. Do a quick release when done
7. Lift basket out
8. Enjoy as is or cool slightly and scoop out insides to make this.
9. Remove peelings and mash in a large bowl with a fork. Add in the sugar, butter, eggs and 1/4 c. of heavy cream and mix together until smooth. If it is too thick for you, add a bit more heavy cream.
10. In a separate bowl, mix together the topping ingredients.  
11. Place potato mixture in a casserole dish that fits into your Instant Pot, add the topping mixture, then cover dish with foil.
12. Add 1 cup of water to the inner pot of the Instant Pot and then lower the casserole dish into the inner pot on to a trivet.
13. Cook on high pressure for 20 minutes. 
14. Do a quick release when the cooking time has finished

with canned yams

You can use these but you really wouldn’t need high pressure at all but yes you can. You can skip the first part since they are already tender in this case. Drain, mash and start from there with the other ingredients mixed together.

in Ninja Foodi

You will use the lid that is not attached to pressure cook in that pot. If you haven’t been pressure cooking during the holidays you’re missing out! Adding these melting sweet potatoes are a great side dish option for the holidays too! The printable recipe is below but here is a quick rundown of how we made this;

If you wanted a yummy duo you can make our air fryer sweet potato cubes as well with the lid that is attached as a crispier choice. Enjoy as is or with tiny marshmallows on the top to dress it up and add more sweetness….. In a Foodi you can crisp the top with the air crisp function at 380 for 2 min.

I don’t know about you but this dish is something I look forward to every year, but now this Instant Pot sweet potato casserole recipe makes it even easier to do. It frees up the oven for your turkey, though you can make a pressure cooker turkey in it too! Pressure cookers allow you to cook an entire dish in one pot = less clean up

You can make sweet potato in the air fryer as well! Of course a totally different texture as far as that one goes but another side dish winner. Slice and serve as is or make sweet potato muffins.