What You'll Learn & Meet Your Coach

Introduction

Welcome to Flavour Balancing Made Easy. I’m Amy Klitscher, and with over 10 years of experience as a private chef, retreat chef, and health-focused event caterer, I've learned the art of flavour balancing—creating food that not only tastes good but leaves a lasting impression. In this course, I’ll be sharing the key concepts and techniques that have shaped my cooking, helping you unlock the potential to create dishes that are incredibly enjoyable.

Is this course for you? If you're frustrated with bland meals or find yourself unsure why your dishes don’t quite taste right, you’re in the right place. Whether you're not sure what’s missing or can’t figure out why something tastes a bit average or a bit "off," this course will give you the tools needed to elevate your cooking for good.

What You’ll Learn:

• What the five main flavour profiles are

• The fundamentals of flavour balancing, including what makes a dish well-balanced and what doesn’t

• Why flavour balancing is increasingly essential in today’s food environment

• The physiology of taste - how our brain processes and interprets flavours and how this relates to evolution

• How flavours interact (enhance or counteract) with each other

• A 6-step blue print/framework for how to balance the flavours in a dish

• 3 practical, real-life examples to help you develop your flavour palate and taste in real life what a balanced vs. un-balanced dish tastes like

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to balance the five main flavour profiles—salt, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami—to enhance every dish you make. From breakfast to salads to smoothies, you'll know how to layer and balance flavours so they complement each other perfectly. The best part? Once you understand the principles, you’ll be able to apply them across all kinds of meals, improving your cooking for life.

Meet Your Coach:

Let me quickly introduce myself—if we haven’t met yet, I’m Amy Klitscher, the creator of Broc n’ Roll, which I launched in mid-2024 as a platform to help people become more confident, creative, and healthy home cooks. For the past 10 years, I’ve worked across New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands as a private chef, caterer, and wellness retreat chef. Throughout my career, I’ve specialised in high-end in-home dining, health-conscious catering for large-scale events, and cooking for wellness retreats.

Along the way, one common challenge kept popping up everywhere I went: While many people understand the importance of eating healthy food, they often struggle to make it simple, enjoyable, and—most importantly—delicious. People want to cook healthy meals that are easy to prepare, affordable, and full of flavour, but they just don’t know how to bring it all together. And that’s exactly what Broc n’ Roll is here for - to fill that knowledge gap.

My background includes:

✅ Over 10 years working as a private chef, health-focussed caterer and retreat chef across NZ & Australia

✅ Founder and Director of The Sustainable Food Co., a multi-award-winning event catering company for 5 years

✅ Currently studying Holistic Performance Nutrition at HPI NZ

✅ 6 months as a volunteer cook in the Pacific Islands

✅ eCornell Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition

✅ Seeds of Life Raw Chef's Certification

✅ Waitematā Good Citizens Award Winner

✅ LKK Developing Chefs Competition, Finalist

✅ The Impact Awards, Climate Category Winner

I’m really happy you’ve decided to join me for this course on flavour balancing, because I truly believe it’s one of the most valuable skills you can master in the kitchen. With just a bit of knowledge and practice, you’ll be able to transform your cooking and make healthy, vibrant meals that taste amazing, every time. Learning to flavour balance. isa very valuable skill to have in the kitchen, and it is a huge step in the piece of giving yourself the freedom and confidence to cook healthy meals time after time without needing a recipe.

Let’s get into it!

Getting Organised: The Ingredient & Equipment List for the three practical exercises can be found in Module 6, Lesson 1.