Crock-Pot sweet potatoes are slow-cooked sweet potatoes often served as a side dish with extra sweeteners and dessert ingredients. Slow cookers are electrical appliances used to cook stews, soups, and tubers like sweet potatoes. Crock-Pot sweet potatoes can be made suitable for different dietary restrictions. Sweet potatoes can also be cooked with other tubers, Asian ingredients, and coconut milk.
Crock-Pot sweet potatoes are any sweet potato cooked in a slow cooker, often referred to by the brand name Crock-Pot. Often associated with North American Thanksgiving, this dish usually includes an extra sweetener and may contain marshmallows or other dessert ingredients. Despite their sweetness, Crock-Pot sweet potatoes are usually eaten as a side dish. These versatile slow cooker meals can be suitable for many different restrictive diets. Other sweet potato dishes can also be made in a slow cooker for any occasion, including stews, gratins, and plain baked sweet potatoes.
Slow cookers are electrical appliances with a glazed ceramic pot inside, covered by a lid. These appliances are often called Pots, regardless of brand, and can be used to cook stews, soups, and tubers such as sweet potatoes over a long period of time. Slow cookers require little or no attention during the cooking process and trap steam inside, making them a good choice for moist dishes that require a long cooking time. Preparing sweet potato side dishes in a slow cooker allows the cook to focus their energy on other, more time-consuming recipes.
In North America, sweet potatoes are closely associated with Thanksgiving and are usually served with more sweetness. Like their baked or oven-cooked relatives, Crock-Pot sweet potatoes usually contain extra-refined sugar or molasses, or sweeteners like maple syrup or honey. Marshmallows are often included as a topping in these dishes, and dessert spices like cinnamon and nutmeg can play a big part. These very sweet recipes are usually served as a side dish together with meat, potatoes and vegetables, with pies, cakes or other desserts eaten after the main meal.
While the default recipe usually includes sugar, butter, and wheat flour, cooks can make Crock-Pot sweet potatoes as a suitable dinner for a variety of dietary restrictions. Substituting vegetable oil or margarine for butter makes the dish suitable for vegans or people with milk allergies. Using tapioca starch or cornstarch as a thickener instead of flour makes a basic recipe gluten-free. Diabetics can omit the sugar and other sweeteners traditionally associated with this dish or substitute calorie-free sweeteners like sucralose or aspartame.
Not all sweet potatoes from Crock-Pot are sweet and associated with specific holidays. Cooks can also use slow cooking techniques to produce baked or stewed sweet potatoes combined with beets, turnips and other tubers. Some recipes use ingredients from Asian cuisine, such as ginger, chilli and lemongrass. Sweet potatoes combine well with coconut milk and are also used in some dessert soups containing this ingredient. The tubers can also be cooked in the slow cooker on their own, with just a little water, then served with butter and salt.
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