Speedy Sweet Potatoes

Speedy Sweet Potatoes

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Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite foods and is a definite staple in the Harris household.  We can pretty much side it with any dish and make a delicious meal.  There is one annoying thing about having this amazing goodness being a part of your regular scheduled programming.  It takes SOOOO much time to cook!  Granted you could take the 45 minutes to an hour (sometimes longer for bigger sweet potatoes) and get something else done.  Well we always don’t have other things to prepare and there are some days where the oven or stove needs to be taken over by other dishes we’re cooking.  Then our beautiful active 8-month-old daughter loves to “help” while we’re working all our magic in the kitchen.  As you can imagine preparing some of our favorite meals could take longer than we would like them to.

Then one glorious day I hear about pressure cookers more specifically the Instant Pot.  My co-workers who also have families and prepare food ahead were telling me all the wonders of pressure cooking and how it cuts so much time off cooking.  So, I was sold.  I get great food AND I can get it in less time?  Sign me up!  Luckily for us I caught wind of this phenomenon everyone knew about but me, just in time for the Black Friday holiday sales.  After I put my Amazon Prime membership to work our Instant Pot Instant Pot LUX60 V3 6 Qt 6-in-1 Muti-Use Programmable Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Sauté, Steamer, and Warmer came on a Sunday afternoon just in time for meal prep day!  Of course, we had to put the sweet potatoes on deck first to see if this pressure cooking is as good as everyone says it is.

I would advise anyone who is using a pressure cooker for the first time to read the instructions.  The looming fear of our pressure cooker blowing up was in the back of my mind from all the horror stories I’ve heard about the lids taking flight.  Now that we’ve read the precautions and which settings are best to use for certain foods we’re ready to cook!

Speedy Sweet Potatoes

Need a quick side dish in a hurry?  Get ready for a delicious side dish in a flash! With the right recipe, you can have creamy and naturally sweetened mashed sweet potatoes. We love pairing this with just about any dish, but if we had to choose, broccoli and some oven baked chicken really hits the spot! 

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • ¼ cup almond milk unsweetened vanilla
  • 4 medium sweet potatoes cut larger ones in half if need be
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Place steamer basket in your Instant Pot and add the 1 cup of water.
  2. Rinse and clean your sweet potatoes with cold water. Give them a good scrubbing before drying with a paper towel and placing on top of the steamer basket in the Instant Pot.
  3. Place the lid on the Instant Pot and turn it to closed. Make sure the vent knob on top is pointing to “Sealed”.
  4. Press the “Steam” button on the instant pot, and set the time to 10 minutes.
  5. Once the timer goes off DON’T open the lid. All the presser to escape on its own for about 20 minutes.
  6. Remove the lid and remove those sweet potato skins after they’re cool enough to touch.
  7. While potatoes are still warm cut them up into chunks and place in your food processor. (We have a smaller processor so we typically only do 1 potato at a time. If you have a larger food processor then you can up the ante on the ingredients according to your taste with the seasonings and ¾ cup for a creamier mashed potato dish.)
  8. Add salt, pepper, cinnamon, and almond milk (unsweetened vanilla) to sweet potato chunks in food processor.
  9. Pulse processor for thicker potatoes. For smoother potatoes hold the pulses longer for about 1 min. You can also break out the potato masher if you don’t have a food processor and combine the ingredients the same way.
  10. 10. Once combined to your liking, serve warm as a complimentary dish or store in the fridge in a Tupperware container for future meals!

 

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