Our Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Mash recipe will become your favorite way to cook yams!
It’s basically an easier and healthier spin on our Sweet Potato Casserole (which is delicious!).
This is a fantastic side dish for Thanksgiving or it could be just a delicious recipe to enjoy any time of year.
How to make this Sweet Potato Recipe:
Place cut-up sweet potatoes in a slow cooker.
Pour 1/2 cup apple juice into a bowl and mix in cinnamon, brown sugar and nutmeg; pour over sweet potatoes.
Cover slow cooker and cook on low 4-5 hours or until potatoes are soft and tender (it will depend on how hot your slow cooker cooks and how big/small you chopped your potatoes).
When potatoes are cooked through, blend the sweet potatoes inside your slow cooker with a hand mixer or mash with a potato masher.
Depending on what texture you want for your potatoes, you can add up to 1/2 cup of remaining apple juice – I usually add a few tablespoons at a time and mash them again until I get the consistency I want.
Season with more cinnamon and nutmeg if desired.
Top with pecans* and serve.
*Note: These are the exact pecans we used for this recipe
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Looking for more sweet potato recipes? here are a few of our favorite:
- Instant Pot Baked Sweet Potatoes
- Brown Sugar Bacon Roasted Sweet Potatoes
- Twice Baked Bacon and Chive Sweet Potatoes
- Maple Bacon Sweet Potatoes
- Coconut Pecan Sweet Potatoes
- Mom’s Sweet Potato Casserole
- Slow Cooker Candied Sweet Potatoes
Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Mash Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch slices
- 1 cup apple juice, divided
- 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 Tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- pecans, for topping (I used candied pecans, but any kind will work)
Equipment
Instructions
- Place cut-up sweet potatoes in a slow cooker.
- Pour 1/2 cup apple juice into a bowl and mix in cinnamon, brown sugar and nutmeg; pour over sweet potatoes.
- Cover slow cooker and cook on low 4-5 hours or until potatoes are soft and tender (it will depend on how hot your slow cooker cooks and how big/small you chopped your potatoes).
- When potatoes are cooked through, blend the sweet potatoes inside your slow cooker with a hand mixer or mash with a potato masher.
- Depending on what texture you want for your potatoes, you can add up to 1/2 cup of remaining apple juice – I usually add a few tablespoons at a time and mash them again until I get the consistency I want.
- Season with more cinnamon and nutmeg if desired.
- Top with pecans and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
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Oh goodness… You had me at Crock Pot and sealed the deal w/ sweet potato mash!! Delish! Pinning it immediately.
*Krystina
Many times I scroll through a recipe and I think, oh no, not for me, or don’t have that or this, looks too hard. I caught myself saying aloud, I can make that! Tank you.
Happy Tuesday…..I LOVE sweet potatoes but have never cooked them in the crock pot. I struggle with having them during the week because they take so long to cook……….but now that I have this recipe and idea I will be able to! Thanks for sharing.
What do you suggest serving as a main dish with this? I have never made sweet potatoes (besides fries) other than a holiday! Lame, but I like mine to taste like dessert and I try not to make them everyday!
How many servings does this make?
Pork chops!
Also, I’d add salt & pepper… Well, salt for sure and possibly would do a version without sugar but add pepper… Savory instead of sweet. Also, brown sugar if the sweet version like this recipe is.
If I triple the recipe, how long should I cook it for?
If you triple the recipe, you will need more than one crock pot. The cooking time would be increased by a little with more in the crock pot. But tripling the recipe will probably not fit well or cook well if put in one crock pot.
What size crockpot do you use?
Most of us have 6 or 7 quart slow cookers.