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Do you cook catfish frozen or thawed?

Asked: Rowan Stamm, Last Updated:

Catfish can be fried without thawing it first. If you have purchased frozen catfish fillets, you might be wondering what you can do with them. You can thaw catfish fillets to fry them, but you don't need to thaw them, unless the fillets were frozen without breading and you would like to bread them.

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