Slow Cooker Mashed Sweet Potatoes

In the fall and winter I often enjoy using sweet potatoes for sides for meals, especially during the holidays! Normally I cook the sweet potatoes on the stove but stove time and space is often limited for a large meal so doing something in the slow cooker is nice, not to mention easy! Mashed sweet potatoes work really well in the slow cooker, you simply place the peeled and diced sweet potatoes into the slow cooker and cook until tender before adding your favourite mashed potato ingredients like butter and milk and mashing them! It’s that easy! You can mash them by hand or with a mixer or food processor.
Of course that’s just the basic mashed sweet potatoes and you can kick things up by adding extra flavours like cinnamon, maple, and/or brown sugar for sweet variations or garlic, cheese, etc for savoury versions.

Add maple syrup and pecans!