Entry

Blitva s Krumpirom

Name: Blitva s Krumpirom
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Croatia
Ingredients: 500 g Swiss chard, leaves and tender stalks; 400 g waxy potatoes, thickly sliced; 3 cloves garlic, sliced; 45 ml Dalmatian extra virgin olive oil; 1 lemon, for squeezing; 2 g sea salt flakes

Dalmatian clean-eating classic — Swiss chard and potatoes with garlic and first-press olive oil.

25 min 4 servings 55 kcal per serving

Ingredients

500 gSwiss chard, leaves and tender stalks
400 gwaxy potatoes, thickly sliced
3 clovesgarlic, sliced
45 mlDalmatian extra virgin olive oil
1lemon, for squeezing
2 gsea salt flakes

Method

01
Boil the potatoes in salted water for 10 minutes until nearly tender.
02
Add the chard stalks for two minutes, then the leaves for one minute more, so everything finishes together.
03
Drain well, reserving a splash of the cooking water.
04
Warm the garlic gently in olive oil until fragrant and pale gold — never browned.
05
Fold the garlic oil through the vegetables, crushing a few potatoes so they thicken the dish.
06
Finish with lemon, sea salt and a final pour of raw olive oil at the table.

Why this dish works

Blitva s Krumpirom is built for 4 servings and lands at roughly 55 kcal per plate, with 6g protein, 30g carbohydrate and 9g fat across the recipe. It comes together in about 25 minutes using 6 whole-food ingredients — led by swiss chard, leaves and tender stalks, waxy potatoes, thickly sliced, garlic, sliced — so nothing here relies on packaged sauces, refined sugar or ultra-processed shortcuts. That balance is what keeps it a realistic weeknight option rather than a weekend project.

The entry sits inside our Croatia collection and carries the Plant-Based, Gluten-Free, Anti-Inflammatory, Blood Pressure tags, so it slots straight into the Smart Recipe Finder when you filter by dietary focus or allergens. Scale the portions in the recipe drawer and the ingredient quantities and macros recalculate together; sync it to your shopping list and the pantry tracker subtracts what you already own before the list is generated.

Cooking and storing it well

Read the method through once before you start — the 6 steps are written in the order a working kitchen would run them, with prep that can overlap grouped together. Hands-free cook mode reads each step aloud and runs the timers, so your phone can stay on the counter. Season at the end rather than the beginning: salt, acid and good olive oil do more for the finished plate when they are adjusted against the cooked dish. Leftovers keep well chilled for two to three days in a sealed container; bring anything dressed or herb-heavy back to room temperature before serving so the aromatics come forward again.

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