Nonna Maria Pesce’s Thanksgiving Citrus Turkey

Tacchino agli Agrumi

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    8 to 10

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      3 hr 30

Appears in
Cooking with Nonna: A Year of Italian Holidays

By Rossella Rago

Published 2018

  • About

No Thanksgiving holiday would be complete without a turkey. Nonna Maria confesses that she was a bit lost her first Thanksgiving in America when faced with the unfamiliar bird. (In Italy, turkey is rarely eaten; capon, if anything, is prepared in its place.) But over the years she learned to love the American-style tradition. She did add her own Italian flair to the preparation, of course!