Air Fryer Catfish Nuggets Recipes

FRIED CATFISH NUGGETS

Steps:

• Place the catfish pieces into a mixing bowl and sprinkle with thyme leaves. Toss until the catfish is evenly coated with the thyme. Mix in the mustard with your hands. Cover, and refrigerate overnight, up to 24 hours.
• Heat oil in a deep-fryer or large saucepan to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Whisk the flour, salt, black pepper, and baking soda together in a mixing bowl.
• Dip the catfish pieces one at a time into the flour mixture and shake off the excess. Fry the catfish nuggets in batches until they are no longer translucent in the center and are golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Let the oil come back up to temperature between batches. Drain the nuggets on a paper towel-lined plate before serving.

AIR FRYER CATFISH

Steps:

• Rinse off the fish fillets and pat it dry.
• Take all seasoning ingredients and pour it in a Ziploc bag. Make sure it's big enough to fit your fish!
• Put fish in the bag and shake it up. One fish at a time, shake up the bag until each fillet is well coated with the seasoning mix.
• Spray oil on every fillet.
• Put the fish in the air fryer and cook for 20 minutes at 400F. Flip the fillets half way throug cooking time.

AIR FRYER CATFISH NUGGETS

Steps:

• Preheat an air fryer to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Place seasoned breading mix in a gallon-size plastic resealable bag. Drop catfish pieces inside, close, and shake to coat fish with breading on all sides.
• Spread out nuggets on a baking sheet and spray with non-stick cooking spray. Place nuggets in an even layer in the air fryer basket, sprayed side down. You may need to work in batches depending on the size of your air fryer. Spray the tops with non-stick cooking spray.
• Air fry for 8 minutes. Using tongs, flip nuggets over and cook for 4 minutes more.

GLUTEN FREE AIR FRYER CATFISH

Steps:

• Add buttermilk to a bowl and gently place the catfish fillets (or nuggets) into the milk. If you don't have buttermilk, it is easy to make by adding lemon juice to milk. Soak the fish for 30 minutes. This step is important to remove the fishy flavor from the catfish.
• Mix up the cornmeal seasoning mix in a large bag. Place the cornmeal fish breading and seasoning ingredients into a large bag and shake to mix it up. When the catfish is done soaking in buttermilk, hold the catfish over the bowl to allow the extra milk to run off.
• Place the catfish in the bag, one fillet at a time. Shake gently so the raw catfish fillet is coated in the catfish breading mixture. Preheat your air fryer to 375º F.
• Spray the bottom grill of the air fryer with a high heat oil like avocado or canola. (Do not use olive oil or another heat intolerant oil or your fish will turn out rancid.) Place a breaded catfish fillet in the air fryer. Make sure the fish isn't touching so the air can circulate around each piece of fish.
• Spray the top of the gluten free breaded catfish with more oil. This will help the crust get nice and crispy!
• Cook your catfish in the air fryer for 12-15 minutes. The actual cook time will vary depending on the size of your catfish fillets, and whether you use catfish nuggets or fillets. You will know the catfish is done cooking when it is crispy and the cornmeal breading is a golden color.
• Note, many will recommend flipping your catfish over partway through the cooking cycle. I find this difficult without the catfish falling apart in the air fryer. It is up to you if you want to try this. I did not flip it and my catfish was still crispy and delicious on both sides.
• Drizzle fresh lemon juice over the fish and enjoy!

AIR FRYER 3 INGREDIENT FRIED CATFISH

Steps:

• Pat the catfish dry.
• Sprinkle the fish fry onto both sides of each fillet. Ensure the entire filet is coated with seasoning.
• Spritz olive oil on the top of each filet.
• Place the filet in the Air Fryer basket. Do not stack the fish and do not overcrowd the basket. Cook in batches if needed. Close and cook for 10 minutes on 400 degrees.
• Open the air fryer and flip the fish. Cook for an additional 10 minutes.
• Open and flip the fish.
• Cook for an additional 2-3 minutes or until desired crispness.
• Top with optional parsley.

AIR FRYER CATFISH

Steps:

• Rinse fish and lay on paper towels, fold over to remove moisture from outside of fillets.
• In a shallow bowl whisk egg, in another add breadcrumbs, flour, salt, pepper and parmesan cheese. Mix together.
• Dredge each piece in egg, then breadcrumbs mixture. Allow excess to fall off.
• Preheat air fryer basket to 400 degrees F for 5 minutes. Spray inside of basket with olive oil spray.
• Lay coated fillets inside in a single layer without overlapping them.
• Cook for 15 minutes total (give or take depending on how thick your pieces are, check after 10 with 5 minutes on each side) flipping over half way through cook time.
• Remove when fork tender in thickest part of fillet and internal temp is 145 F.
• Plate and squeeze lemon on top and serve with tartar sauce.