Instant Pot sweet potatoes cubed is a nutritious side dish that is cheap to make and everyone says they’re delicious. Sweet and savory YUM for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas or year round with dinner. Can be made in Ninja Foodi or any other pressure cooker.
Looking for a new pressure cooker side dish that is inexpensive but your kids will love it? Instant Pot sweet potatoes cubed will be your new favorite dish. Easy to prep and tastes like you got them at a restaurant. This easy Instant Pot recipe will surely make it on to your meal rotation. (affiliate links present)
How Long to Cook Cubed Sweet Potatoes in Instant Pot
Not long. Seriously you can prep, cook and have this easy side dish next to your main dish in less than 15 minutes or so. Garnish how you like but sprinkled with cinnamon, sugar and a little honey is our favorite. I assure you you’ll not only make this during the week but it might replace your calorie laden sweet potato casserole during the holiday.
Yes we have shown you how to make whole air fryer sweet potatoes before but those take much longer and aren’t as easy to eat either. Whether you’re looking to save time at Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas OR just trying to get your kids to eat more veggies you’ve gotta’ try this.
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- How Long to Cook Cubed Sweet Potatoes in Instant Pot
- Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker Cubed Sweet Potatoes
- How to Steam Cubed Sweet Potato Instant Pot
- What is the difference between a yam and a sweet potato?
- How to Cook Frozen Cubed Sweet Potatoes
- How to make Instant Pot Cubed Sweet Potatoes
- How to Serve Steamed Sweet Potatoes
If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:
- Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!
- Then PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
- I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
- You should know how to deglaze a pressure cooker after sautéing but it won’t have as many issues with this better liner.
For reference, this is the model I have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.
Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker Cubed Sweet Potatoes
Why do I cut them like this? Even when it comes to meat I like to cut everything into bite size pieces. It makes it faster to cook and cooks more evenly too. Okay maybe I just so used to cooking this way with 3 girls and all those years of cutting up food at the table. It is just so much easier to have all of that done beforehand.
How to Steam Cubed Sweet Potato Instant Pot
This is easy to do. Just cut, throw into a steam basket with water underneath and let it go. You can then serve as is seen here, or mash like we did with our Instant Pot sweet mashed potatoes. There are so many different sizes you can make and serve. All the same flavor of course but smashed is obviously a different texture and preferred during the holidays BUT cubed is a really nice change.
What is the difference between a yam and a sweet potato?
I often get confused too. More so because if you look at these done and tender they look very similar to the canned variety you eat during the holidays. Yams fresh though aren’t that sweet, these are much more so. BUT you really could replace “that can” with this instead, with the marshmallows on top and everything.
Seriously, if they were dressed up the same way and served in a pretty dish I guarantee you nobody would ever question that they were different. You would know that they were free from all those preservatives though and not so sickeningly sweet.
How to Cook Frozen Cubed Sweet Potatoes
You can actually buy these all prepped and sold frozen at your local grocery store and they take the same amount of time under high pressure. I guess you could go that direction but it really doesn’t take longer than 5 minutes to prepare so why?? If you did don’t change the directions or cook time at all.
It’s not rocket science but here we go. You want to peel the skins because they are very tough and not pleasant to eat at all as opposed to other varieties. Then slice lengthwise in half and lay the cut flat end on your cutting board. Then cut the sweet potato lengthwise again twice so you can about 3 equal pieces. Turn to the side and cut into cubes the size you want.
When cut into large bite size pieces it only takes 8 minutes to make russet or sweet potatoes fork tender. It is a quick way to steam perfectly and preserve all the nutrition vs. boiling which breaks them down.
The smaller they are the softer they will become. Unless you want to mash and make Instant Pot sweet potato casserole make 1×1″ or so.
You can see about what I am saying above in the size anyway. We have done this similarly when making air fryer butternut squash cubes too. Want to do this the old fashioned way too? NO problem, check out how we did just that to make sweet potato cubes in oven.
How to make Instant Pot Cubed Sweet Potatoes
- To start you’re going to pour 1 cup of water into inner pot and lower down a vegetable steamer basket. to the bottom of the pot
- Remove skins (preferred) and cut into bite size pieces, put into basket.
- Can sprinkle with a bit of white sugar and salt if desired now. Close lid and steam valve and set to high pressure cook for 8 minutes.
- Do a quick release when timing is done. Lift steamer basket out and serve on plates.
- Favorite way to serve cooked sweet potatoes is to sprinkle some brown sugar, cinnamon, a drizzle of honey on top. Just a bit of salt on top of each is good too for a sweet and savory flavor. Or add butter and maple syrup? Use your favorite choices.
Add a cup to each plate and garnish to your hearts content y’all! Let us know if you find another add on you and your family love so we can try it too.
Want to make a healthier version of your favorite holiday dish? Do the same thing but use maple syrup with some crushed pecans on top. Cubing instead of making mashed sweet potatoes out of them gives the dish more texture but the same overall flavor profile.
How to Serve Steamed Sweet Potatoes
So beyond this if you want to make the outsides a bit crispy you have a few choices. You can make air fryer sweet potato cubes but you’d only need to cook at 400 for about 4 minutes tossing once. Throw them on a baking sheet with your add ons under the broiler for baked sweet potato bites for a few minutes.
OR just serve them as is for the quickest method of all. You can jump to recipe and get started right now. It is printable so if you want to save it you can. If you have any leftovers, cool them, store in a freezer bag in the fridge and reheat in the microwave the next day.
Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes Cubed
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 3 sweet potatoes, skinned, cut into bite size cubes
- 1 c water
Instructions
- Pour water into inner pot and lower down a vegetable steamer basket. Remove skins (or not) and cut into bite size pieces, put into basket.
- Can sprinkle with a bit of white sugar and salt if desired now. Close lid and steam valve and set to high pressure for 8 minutes.
- Do a quick release when done. Lift steamer basket out and serve on plates.
- Favorite way is to sprinkle some brown sugar, cinnamon, a drizzle of honey and just a bit of a sprinkle of salt on top of each serving for a sweet and savory flavor.
- * If you have a Ninja Foodi you can transfer pieces to air fry basket, empty water, drizzle on honey, cinnamon and sugar and air crisp for a few minutes if you want a bit of crisp on the outsides.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
