White wine, butter, lemon, and tarragon make up the sauce in this shrimp scampi that's served over quick-cooking orzo.

However, once we made this easy and incredibly flavorful this shrimp scampi without wine, it quickly become our new favorite!

Simple, quick dinners like shrimp scampi with pasta and shrimp tacos ... plenty of lemon is the secret to this tangy, creamy shrimp salad. David Malosh for The New York Times.

Don’t stop at pasta! Try shrimp scampi spooned over crusted toasted bread or tossed into a simple salad. The seafood classic will instantly make any dinner plate feel ten times more elegant.