Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt cooked the Thanksgiving turkey this year for the very first time and were very "proud" at the results.

The couple are parents to six children and instead of getting a private chef to rustle up the meal for the festive tradition, they got their own hands dirty instead.

Speaking to Anderson Cooper for his talk show which will air on Monday, the Oscar winning actress gave an insight into what goes on behind closed doors in the Jolie-Pitt household.

"Brad and I decided we were actually going to make the turkey and we were very successful and very proud of ourselves," Angelina dished. "We did it!"

Angelina said that she had "tried" cooking her own bird "on and off" over the past few years but it was this November that she and Brad put their culinary skills together for their brood.

"This was just the two of us with the kids watching trying to pretend we knew exactly what we were doing," she laughed.

And she said that despite their busy schedules and flying all over the world, they always try to sit down together for their evening meal.

"We actually have family dinner every night," Angelina shared. "We make a point of it. It's crazy. There's a good five minutes where everybody is quiet and sitting together and then it starts to break off."

She said that their globetrotting has become easier as Maddox, 10, Pax, eight, Zahara, six, Shiloh, five, and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, have gotten older.

"Now we are starting to get them where they each have their own luggage and they unpack their own clothes and pack their own," Angelina shared. "Because it was just getting too confusing for me to figure out but it's great, it's so much fun."

"Fortunately my kids love to travel, they're very worldly. What I love is that they can be in New York in a hotel in Manhattan and think it's so cool, and then I can bring them to the middle of Kenya and drop them in a tent with no TV and no nothing, and they're just as happy. That's what we are trying to do, to balance them."