Green Juice by Roy Choi
RECIPE: Reprinted by permission from The Choi of Cooking. Copyright © 2025 by Roy Choi, Natasha Phan, and Tien Nguyen. Photographs copyright © 2025 by Bobby Fisher. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
Photo: Bobby Fisher
You don’t need a juicer for this green juice recipe.
Chef Roy Choi wasn’t always a fan of green juice. His family didn’t own a juicer, and he only understood vegetables as food. “The whole green juice thing just felt overwhelming, super daunting, and absolutely not something I wanted to try,” he wrote in his book, The Choi of Cooking. But once he did finally try a fresh green juice, he loved it. And it made him reevaluate his life choices, including choices that were made for him “that made green juice so inaccessible to my part of LA, and to my friends.” So for his book, he created a green juice recipe that even those who don’t have a juicer can make.
Ingredients
Yield:2 1/2 cups
- 1 cucumber, quartered
- 1 green apple, cored and quartered
- 1 kiwi, quartered
- 1 lime, quartered or halved
- 1/2 lemon
- 2 cups loosely packed spinach
- 2 cups loosely packed baby kale
- 1 1/2 cups sliced celery
- 1/4 cup tightly packed fresh mint
- 1/4 cup tightly packed fresh basil
- 1/4 cup tightly packed fresh parsley
- 2 1/2 inch piece fresh ginger
- Tools:juicer or blender
Preparation
Place the cucumber, apple, kiwi, lime, lemon, spinach, baby kale, celery, mint, basil, parsley, and ginger into a juicer and juice. If using a blender, blend it all, then strain. Either way, give it a
good stir, pour into glasses, and be green.
NoteLike aguas frescas, you can remix this with stuff you have in your fridge. Try adding carrots, or different herbs, or throw in a pinch of a spice like turmeric.