We show how we can implement chaotic inflation in the context of
supergravity by conveniently selecting the functional form of a
strong enough non-minimal coupling between the inflaton and the
Ricci scalar curvature. The procedure can be applied when a gauge
singlet or non-singlet inflaton is coupled to another singlet
superfield within linear-quadratic, trilinear or bilinear
superpotential terms. The tachyonic instability occurring along
the direction of the accompanying non-inflaton field can be cured
by expanding the kinetic part of the frame function up to the
fourth order in powers of the various fields. In the case of a
gauge non-singlet inflaton, though, a conjugation symmetry has to
be imposed on these terms in order for the flatness of the
inflationary potential is maintained. On the other hand, some of
these terms assist us to precisely reconcile the resulting scalar
spectral index with the current PLANCK measurements while the
other inflationary observables are in agreement with data.