Meta description tags are very important to optimize your blog in search results. With new Blogger interface we can add a meta description tag to Blogger blog without editing template's HTML. But you can not add meta keywords to your blog using Blogger Settings.
Go to Settings -> Search preferences.
Click on "Edit" link of "Meta tags" section.
Clicks on a "Yes" radio-button to enable search description.
Enter a meaningful meta description into textarea and save changes.

Now you have add a meta description for your blogger blog.
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But if you prefer to add meta tags(meta description, meta keywords, ...) directly to your template(using Edit HTML), read this article: